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George L Smyth (cbf@ari.net)
Tue, 07 May 1996 19:24:06 -0400

Richard Sullivan wrote:

> My own teaching and personal experience an our business help line
> suggests strongly that a glass coating rod is the best way to coat. The
> coating rod is bacically some form of T-handle attaced to a 3/8 inch glass
> rod cut to the smaller width of the paper to be coated, that is if you want
> to coat a 16x20 print, the rod should be 16 inches long. The use of a
> smaller rod will lead to the edges leaving marks in the print.
>

I'm having trouble visualizing this. Do you pour the sensitizer on the paper and spread it with the rod? It
seems to me that it might be difficult to get things even. I'm sure I'm just not thinking of this right.
Could you elaborate?

Thanks - george