Re: sizing paper

Peter Charles Fredrick (pete@fotem.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:53:18 +0000

Judy said

>: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.)

Terry said

>I deny it on the basis of the experience of twenty years.<

This statement is flawed ,you can do the exactly the same thing for twenty
years, or you can do totally different things, each year evolving your
technique, year by year, for twenty years, or an admixture of the two
concepts. Just because you have been doing the same thing for a great many
years does not necessarily mean that you have got it right .Only the work
produced, as displayed on the wall at the end of the day , will tell .
Not how clever you think you ,are or how many years you have been doing
it.
I know as I have been doing it longer than both of you, and I m still in
deep trouble ;-)

There is no need to preshrink.

Again a very simplistic statement, if you use a plastic based paper you do
not need to preshrink, if you use a quality hand made paper , also you
don't need to preshink ,but if you use mould made papers up do to 300 gms,
then you do.

Sorry for butting in, but, butt me no butts :-) oh dear I'm in trouble with
judy again for being silly.

pete