David P. Milton
Jan Faul wrote:
> Hi --
>
> I am near the end of printing an edition of prints on Luminos' paper
> Charcoal R -- and there has been an unacceptably high failure rate with
> the paper. Their paper arrives with black dots around the edges, the
> occasional exposed spots two inches from the edge on several sheets per
> box of fifty, a top sheet which is invariably marred with a curved
> static exposure line.
> In addition, Charcoal R is too easily stained (and ruined) by
> insufficient agitation (not none, just not constant) in the stop bath,
> fixer and toner. It reacts especially poorly to any indicator stop bath,
> a fact which is neither on the box nor contained in the directions, but
> which Luminos will cheerfully tell you after you have opened a $150 box
> of 16x20 paper.
> If you know anybody at Luminos, you better warn them that an
> extremely
> angry Jan Faul is going to call up tomorrow morning and demand a refund
> if for nothing else, the enormous number of sheets of stained/ruined
> paper.sitting here.
> .
> Jan Faul
>
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