Gum research
Robert Newcomb (rnewcomb@athensnet.com)
Thu, 03 Jul 1997 14:35:01 -0400
>Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 09:59:25 -0600
>From: Richard Sullivan <richsul@roadrunner.com>
>Subject: Gum research
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>I am about to embark on a research project on gum. I would love to develop
>a magic colloid, perhaps a mixture or colloids, that will make predictable,
>easy, beautiful grainless, flakeless, full bodied carbon like images. (Oh
>yeah, right!)
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>Normally you would want to define some qualities and gradually work towards
>and test each quality and try after a while to incorporate them all into
>one gum mixture.
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>The problem is to define the qualities and how to test them on an
>individual basis.
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>Any ideas on what these qualities might be and how to do some objective
>testing?
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>Dick Sullivan
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Wouldn't it be magic if a beautiful Gum print could be made with only one
printing.
I realize that multiple printings allow some special controls over areas
within the image, but being able to do it in one printing w/o the bother of
registration problems would also make my day, year...
Robert Newcomb
Watkinsville, GA.