PMpainter@aol.com
Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:41:11 -0400 (EDT)
Just an observation on working with the Ziatype.
I had tried the methods described in the book "The New Platinum Print" by CW
and DS and was having mixed results mainly due to the humidity during the
cold winter months here in the midwest. So having the Lithium Paladium on
hand and the price of Platinum being what it was, I decided to make some
Pt/Pd prints using the LiPd but using the brush developing techniques
described again in the book above. Essentially a Ziatype but not POP because
you expose it dry.
Well the results were again mixed, but I persevered. Till one day I noticed
that if I touched the edge of the coating with a damp finger it would turn
dark after exposure. Well that was it for me and I plunged the print into the
water without developing. It was the best print I had done thus far with good
Dmax and brilliant highlights. I don't know if that is enough to make a new
process but I now call it the "Miatype". :)
So if any of you have dried out Ziatype paper that can not be rehumidified
from a run you couldn't finish you can use it this way and get really nice
prints by DOP instead of POP a water bath and a regular clearing.
Cheers!
Paul Marek
www.tradinplace.com/PMphotography.html
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