Re: Artigue and Fresson Printing

S. Carl King (sanking@hubcap.clemson.edu)
Tue, 13 Jan 1998 12:00:06 -0400

Art,

You must have read my note with a bias. I certainly did not mean to suggest
that I have the results of the test in my possession. What I have are the
notes of the person for whom the test was done, which were given to me over
fifteen years. They correponsd to an analysis that was done some years
before that. I saved these notes, along with a piece of the unprocessed
Fresson paper which was used to make the test.

The person in question shared a lot of other highly acccurate information
with me so I have reason to believe it may be accurate, certainly as
concerns the cross-sectional analysis. He was a meticulous craftsman and
had worked with some of the leading research scientists at Kodak in
Rochester. I can not recall that he told me that an actual analysis was
done to determine the type of colloid so my confidence that the coatings
consisted of gelatin is not high.

Sandy

>Sandy,
>
>I just re-read the above note. I had thought that the information was
>based upon an electron microscopic image that you actually viewed and/or
>have in your possession . . . either your prior note inferred this or I
>read it with a bias.
>
>Do you have the testing data?
>
>As we have written before, the whole Artigue/Fresson process knowledge
>base is riddled with opinion and conjecture which is impossible to discern
>from fact. Though I personally want the information you provided to be
>true (it seems logical and fits with other aspects of my opinion about
>Fresson) my wishes aren't any more powerful than yours.
>