>> When we first met I suggested that
>> starting with an unsized paper was a useful approach and you pooh-poohed the
idea.
>Terry, beware, you're having a false-memory syndrome.
>As I have declared (and taught) since day one, put in my worksheets,
>proclaimed ad nauseum on this list (have you been to the archive?),
>written in APR (& repeated in the issue about to come out), to the point
>in fact of fearing to sound like a broken record, that many papers will do
>at least one coat satisfactorily with no added size (more possible
>depending on the gum baume and ratio), that's the only explanation I can
>think of for your strange "recollection."
At one point you said that anyone who says that multiple gum prints can be made
without sizing the paper deserves a PhD in mouthing off. It was the power of
that remark that made me remember it. I see now on rereading the correspondence
that we are agreed that a number of coats can be made without sizing with some
papers. The maximum I have achieved with Bockingford is six. But for consistency
of results we both recommend sizing somewhere along the line.
>But it is in any event irrelevant to the discussion at hand, which was
>about the behavior and effects of ossein in case one does decide to apply it.
>> All I can say Judy is that the ossein does what we ask of it
>>for carbon tissue, > carbon transfer tissue, gum(as a size),and oil
>>pigment printing.
>My suggestion is that you may be paying a (high) price for its
>"usefulness" in gum printing. But pace ... I'm sure 499 people are as
>sick of this topic as we are...
Hamlet, Act One, Scene One,Line One ! ! !
Terry