David Michael Kennedy (david@davidmichaelkennedy.com)
Sun, 28 Mar 1999 17:41:32 -0700
Carl-
Howdy.
You might also like the rising artist drawing velum surface 3-ply. It is
the same as 2 ply but 1 ply thicker (duh!) The extra weight is very nice for
large images.
To get even more warmth from the paper try two clearing baths in
hydrochloric acid about 30-60 mls per gallon and the a third clearing bath
in sodium sul. and edta. The acid tends to give the paper a "pink" tinge
but then the sodium sul. removes the "pink" and add some additional warmth.
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Weese <cjweese@wtco.net>
To: Alt-photo-process <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Date: Sunday, March 28, 1999 2:09 PM
Subject: Ziatype/Rising Bristol
>Just got to spend some quality time in the darkroom, and I'm finding
>that Ziatype and Rising Bristol 2-ply are a match made in heaven.
>
>The paper coats easily (with remarkably little solution: 32 drops for
>7x17) and seems very un-fussy in handling. The tone is velvet smooth
>with full range and excellent dmax. The simplest Zia formula results in
>a decidedly warm print instead of the expected charcoal neutral. Half
>cesium-palladium gives a romantic-looking warm print with chocolate
>mid-tones and full deep blacks. Haven't tried other formulas or the
>exotic ferric oxalates yet.
>
>Rising Stonehenge White is another story. It's absorbent and wants a lot
>of solution, but even so is tricky to coat and tends to get blotchy or
>uneven, and the uneven spots *print* uneven. Nice neutral color and
>strong dmax, but smooth areas want to go gritty. Maybe a different
>coating approach would help, but this doesn't look like a great combo.
>
>But the Bristol makes up for it.
>
>---Carl
>
>
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