>:And as I have said early and late, if you want to re-register successive
>coats precisely a preshrink is necessary (although fastening to a
>substrate is a further improvement) (Deny all you like, Terry. I stand by
>this statement.)
I deny it on the basis of the experience of twenty years.
> The preshrink in hot water tends to melt factory sizing
>off the paper & raise the nap, so that in many (not all) cases, depending
>on the paper & the emulsion mix, an added gelatine size is a great
>benefit.
There is no need to preshrink.
>> Quicker, cleaner, less effort and just as effective. You get going straight
>> away.
>> >I also have used brush-on size and found an additional problem -- with
>> >the gelatine size on one side of the paper only it tends to curl like
>> >gang-busters.
>> Apply it warm and dry it quickly and use a paper of an appropriate weight (
140
>> lb ) and this will not happen.
>Ahem. Hand-drying brushed-on gelatine is not my idea of "getting going
>straight away."
Takes about three minutes.
>In fact I find it far more trouble than tub sizing, not to mention the
>fact that it wastes costly (in this city) electricity and adds the damage>.to
the environment of creating the electricity, plus the balance of
>payments problems of importing the oil, and the inevitable sequellae of
>all those oil oligarchies in mideast getting forever richer and richer...
>and no doubt other reasons *against* forced drying, and *for* easy, free,
>ecologically correct air drying.
And it rots the teeth and makes the dangly bits fall off and causes severe
constipation which prunes cannot cure and morbid affections following diseases
( sequelae ) and jams things up so that things will not wash away no matter how
often you pull the chain but you don't need to kill so many cows.
>Not to mention that there are (many) times, dear Terry, when one's idea of
>"an appropriate weight" might depart from yours!! Not everyone wants to
>print on a horse blanket all the time..
And you can make wigwams with the rejects.
>However, speaking of paper, I notice that you recommend Bockingford. My
recollection of Bockingford is of texture so rough you couldn't tell if
>the print was in register or not...
If I want a C type or a reversal print I'll get myself one. And will make a big
print of a sofa of limited archival quality and sell it for large amounts of
money to the Arts Council so that it can be displayed next to that very badly
presented Mapplethorp exhibition at the Hayward.
Kentmere use the same paper to make Classic Art which is perhaps the most
beautiful silver gelatine paper on the market. Bockingford started life as a
photographic paper.
Terry