Tween makes things simple.
Tween is very simple. Dropper bottle - squeeze - plink - done.
I've had numerous people tell me that they want to throw away a lot of
there old prints. I've had reports of Tween taming wild papers. I have also
had some reports that a little Tween works, and a little more makes
splotches and a lot more works very nice, sort of a bi-modal thing. Haven't
checked it out yet, though.
Platinum printers by far are a very conservative lot and don't take to new
things very easily but the Tween has taken hold. When Jim Luciana and
Ernestine Ruben were here last spring, Jim would forget to put the Tween in
once in a while and he "x'd" the print on the back. We were able to pick
them out later with no trouble at all. Tween tends to widen the "sweet
spot." If you are making "perfect" prints now, Tween probably isn't going
to make them more perfect. So, if you are making perfect prints, and making
them totally consistently, then Tween will only make things more complicated.
I know you Brits still solder the radiators on Rolls Royces with a
soldering iron heated in a pot of glowing charcoal, that may qualify as
simple. Hell I dunno, it may be done in candlelight too. <big grin>
Cheers old chap.
Dick Sullivan
Bostick & Sullivan
PO Box 16639, Santa Fe
NM 87506
505-474-0890 FAX 505-474-2857
http://www.bostick-sullivan.com