Coke didn't do the testing and was only relating what he had heard through
the grapevine. The conversation was very informal and at a party with
constant interruptions etc. Why they didn't test for silver, I dunno and
maybe this correlates to the print you have, no Ag either. Coke said that
he thought the paper was a pre made paper made in Belgium, but it maybe
just had a watermark indicating Belgium, that would be a more logical
conclusion.
I stand corrected. From here bio, Ullman looks like she could have afforded
pt paper.
Actually toning Kallitypes may make good economic sense -- I say this
against my own economic self interest mind you. Even if you could tone to
total replacement of the metal in the Kallitypes, you would have these
advantages.
1. You would tone only the prints that were good, trashers would be cheap.
2. You only tone what metal was in the print. Prints would only average out
to be maybe 18% gray overall, so perhaps only 18% of the metal would be
needed.
3. Since you would only be plating the grains of silver even less would be
used.
This would in effect provide a considerable cost savings over pt printing.
My guess is you could gain 80% of the permanance of a pt print with 10% of
the noble metal. Eighty percent of the permanance of a pt print might
equate to the difference between an 800 lb gorilla and 1000 lb gorilla;
alone in a dark alley, not much.
--Dick
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