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FotoDave@aol.com
Tue, 04 Nov 1997 07:17:45 -0500 (EST)

KINGNAPOLEONPHOTO@compuserve.com writes:

<< Bockingford will stand six coats of gum without any additional sizing.

Terry, I don't know if I can get Bockingford here in the US. Is it a
watercolor or printmaking paper? What is the weight and surface?

>> For absolute consistency and putting belt and braces on it I will, for
commercia gum prints, size with a 1% gelatine size between coats.

And do you harden the size? With glyoxal or formaldehyde?

>> Now I make my prints with acrylics which seem to give even better results.
>>

Does that mean you mix acrylic color with gum instead of watercolor with gum?
In what sense are the results better? Better in saturation? registration?
number of multiple coatings? .....?

I am still in the very beginning of my experiments w/ gum, so I would
appreciate any help that will hopefully shorten my experiments before I can
get reasonably repeatable results.

Thanks in advance!

Dave