Re: heat drying (was sol A & B
Kerik717@aol.com
Sat, 27 Jun 1998 12:31:08 -0400 (EDT)
Here in the Sierra foothills of California, I air-dry my coated platinum paper
routinely and never use heat. This works well on papers that I double-coat
(Platine and Simili Japon/Socorro Platinum and a few others) as well as papers
that I single coat (Gallery 100, Lenox, Bienfang 360, Strathmore Bristol, etc)
It is now (more or less) summer here. Cooler than the norm, but El Nino is
finally sleeping. My darkroom is aroud 40% - 50% and about 70 - 75 degrees.
Outside it's in the mid 80's. On occaision when I want to speed up the
process, after about 10 minutes of soaking time, I'll dry the surface with a
hair dryer with no heat as Carl suggested. With air drying I get very rich
blacks and smooth tones throughout the scale. I have never had any thing like
flat, weak, or "sunken" prints using this approach.
Kerik Kouklis
http://www.jps.net/kerik/