Campos & Davis Photos (photos@campos-davis.co.uk)
Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:44:03 +0100
In the UK we can obtain this wax as a liquid. Paraffin wax. Could this be
easier?
Campos & Davis Photos
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London N10 2BT
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> From: Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>
> To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
> Subject: waxing negs
> Date: Sunday, 18 April, 1999 8:37 PM
>
>
>
> On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, John R. Crankshaw wrote:
>
> > Charles, did Judy ever reply with the answer to your question? I'm also
> > interested.
> >
> > John
>
>
> John, I imagine that I did, but writing some 50 emails a minute, I don't
> always have them indexed in mind. I've certainly written about it at
> length in past, MUST be in the archive, but briefly, the only wax I use
is
> a bar of paraffin, heat the paper with electric iron & rub in. Keep
> heating & rubbing til all clear. It's a piece of cake for ink jet, but
has
> to be handled carefully with laser or copy machine toner which can
offset.
> Have never used it on photo paper, but I imagine fiber paper would be
> similar -- tho not sure it would work at all with RC.
>
> Some special laser papers also have a coating & wouldn't accept the
> paraffin. There are so many out there it's impossible to generalize, but
> for $2 for a pound of wax at the supermarket (sold for jelly making, but
> lay in a stock when you find it, maybe jellymaking goes out of style,
> easiest to get in summer when people make jelly), easy to try.
>
> Again, I've written this x times... there have to be more details in
> archive...
>
> cheers,
>
> Judy
>
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