Adam Kimball (akimball@finebrand.com)
Mon, 18 Jan 1999 23:47:37 -0800
Oh boy...
What did I start? Ha. Well the short is answer is, I'm not going to test it! I
just made the hypothesis, my work is done. Ha. No, seriously, I just acquired a
bunch of new pt/pd chemistry a few months ago and I was in a world of hurt with
my platinum printing, it led to weeks of wedges. So, I went to gum. Now I've
been printing gum wedges for weeks. My tiny little apartment is littered with
prints of wedges - Chrysotypes (oh boy, was the fun), kallitypes, platinums,
photogravures and now gums in ungodly bright colors... Oh yea, back to photoshop
where I am making digital wedges ;)
Take care,
Adam
Steve Shapiro wrote:
> Adam,
>
> So, when are you going to try it and report back?
>
> SS
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Kimball <akimball@finebrand.com>
> To: William Laven <wmlaven@platinotype.com>;
> alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
> Date: Monday, January 18, 1999 7:55 PM
> Subject: Re: Micro pipettes and K. chlorate %solutions
>
> >Thanks William for you the note-
> >
> >Well, first off, that email was merely a hypothesis- and like any
> hypothesis is
> >quite possibly totally wrong- I thought I'd through it out there for what
> it is
> >worth... if anything.
> >
> >My point was merely that if you are looking for the ultimate single-coat
> print, a
> >good place to tighten things down would be the amount of metal and iron
> that
> >actually gets on the paper. When I rod coat, I routinely end up with
> sensitizer
> >that I push right off the paper at the end. The paper (mainly Platine)
> simply
> >doesn't take as much emulsion as I'd like to put on it. Now, maybe the
> addition of
> >some water doesn't affect this - maybe the paper fibers will take on extra
> water
> >after it has stopped taking on sensitizer? I have no idea. However, if it
> isn't
> >the case, I think my point has some some validity (a drop at least?) - get
> more
> >metal and iron onto the paper, and get deeper blacks. So, if you use a
> highly
> >saturated ferric oxalate, a saturated metal salt solution - with as little
> water
> >present as possible, you might get deeper blacks. I don't brush coat at
> all, so I
> >speak only from rod coating experience...
> >
> >Eric Nielsen - you out there? Any opinion on the matter? I know you've
> spent some
> >time thinking about saturation. Rudiak - anything? Weese, Sullivan, where
> are the
> >platinum printers - counting drops?
> >
> >I'd personally love to learn more about this..
> >
> >-Adam
> >
> >
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