Terry King
<< These are techniques that I developed after Peter Marshall's and my first
explorations of pt/pd printing some years ago, but even then I do not
remember us concluding that double coating was the best way. That would go
right againstmy cost effectiveness programming and give me pains in my
diodes. >>
It's called age Terry. I have the notes (disorganised though they are) and
the samples.
It wasn't the conclusion I wanted either. But inescapable from the
experiments. The print you gave me back recently was double coated print -
as also the ones in the 150 years show. My evalution of the results was that
the double coating adds a richness in the shadow areas that is just not
quiate there in the single coated prints - though they may oatherwise be
fine prints. For subjects where the mid-tones are the really important
aspect there may be little difference.
This was another reason for moving to machine coated paper - as well as
cutting hassle it cut costs, though the virtually zero wastage is the main
factor here. I never got hand coating to the level wehre I could (double)
coat 10 sheets and consistently get 10 useable prints.
It is interesting to see the quite different volumes that seem to be used to
coat paper - which may go some way to explaining the differences some of us
have over single/double coating. The amounts I used are similar to the
figures Terry gives.
Peter Marshall
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