Thanks to you both for the advice, another possibility crossed off the
list. I currently have some prints drying which are printed heavier and
bleached using Venn's 2 bath. This seems like a good idea as each bath
gets the time needed to complete its function. I wondered if I may be
over tanning while waiting for the image to bleach. So I have limited to
tanning bath to 4mins as suggested in the Venn's method.
I have also a couple of MCC118 prints awaiting bleaching, overprinted by
1 stop as Gene suggested. As its a Belgian holiday Monday and Tuesday I
hope to get some inking done.
I concur on the blocking shadows with ink straight from the can, I spend
a lot of time with a erasure pulling them back! So will try the various
methods of hardening for the initial inking.
Many thanks for the pointers, will let you know how I get on.
brgds
Mel
TERRY KING wrote:
> Message text written by INTERNET:mel.proudfoot@ping.be
> >but I do wash in running tap water. Do you think that
> this could harden the gelatine?<
>
> Mel
>
> My experience, in an area where the water is so hard that HCl clearing
> of
> pt prints will precipitate so much chalk from the water that the plug
> hole
> becomes bunged up, is that bromoils ink up well enough even when
> washed for
> hours.
>
> Terry King