From: Burkhardt Kiegeland (bkiegeland@weisserlotus.co.at)
Date: 12/18/00-01:53:04 AM Z
Thank you for information. You are right, being limited to
the surface of a bromide printer would be a disadvantage. To
overcome this I was considering to use fine watercolor
papers coated with a liquid emulsion.
Burkhardt Kiegeland
Sandy King wrote:
>
> Gelabrom is essentially a variation of carbro. It is somewhat easier to
> work in that one of the most critical procedures of carbro, that of
> squeeging together the bromide with sensitized carbon tissue, is obviated
> bt the fact that the tissue is made in situ on the bromide. A disadvantage
> compared to carbro is that you are limited to the surface of the bromide
> printer, i.e. no transfer to another surface is possible.
>
> As in carbro the gelabrom the tonal scale is like the curve (S curve) of a
> silver print, the bromide printer used to make the pigment print. This
> makes it very different from a carbon print which has a very long straight
> line curve.
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