Kerik717@aol.com wrote:
>
> Carl,
>
> > Kerik, I'm curious how you get your traditional (?) pt prints dry enough
> > when you blow dry with no heat. Is your dryer putting out some heat even
> > when it is on the cool setting? I'm also curious as to what your steps are
> > in double coating Platine.
>
> Actually, I rarely use a dryer at all. My standard procedure for traditional
> platinum is to simply let the coated paper air dry. For example, when I
> double-coat Platine, I apply the first coat (for an 8x10 I use about 0.6 ml
> each of ferric and Pt/Pd and make 4 to 6 passes with a puddle pusher) then
> hang the paper by a corner to air dry. Depending on the temp/humidity the
> paper is ready for a second coat in 15 to 30 minutes. It is ready for the
> second coat when I can drag my fingers over the surface and they don't
> "stick". For the second coat, I apply slightly more sensitizer since the
> paper is now a little more absorbent. After the second coat, I again hang the
> paper to air dry. It is typically ready to print in about an hour or less. I
> control contrast with different developers, so my sensitizer can all be the
> same for a given batch of paper. Using this approach, I can have 15 or 20
> sheets ready to go in a couple hours, then I just start printing. By the time
> I finish the second coat on the last sheet of paper the first sheets are
> ready. If you were controlling contrast with the sensitzer and working with
> one sheet at a time, this would be a very slow way to work with all the drying
> time involved. In that case, the cool air hair dryer would speed things up.
>
> Recently I've begun printing on Rising Gallery 100 vellum surface. This paper
> works well with one relatively heavy coat (about 1.0 ml each of ferric and
> metal for 8x10) then allowed to air dry for 15 to 30 minutes.
>
> Kerik.
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