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RE: Gum vs. Kallitype



Andre et al,

Yes. I can verify that cyanotype over gum works well as does
VDB over gum, but not visa versa. See my earlier post.

Bob Schramm


>From: Andre Fuhrmann <Andre.Fuhrmann@uni-konstanz.de>
>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: RE: Gum vs. Kallitype
>Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 09:51:17 +0100
>
> >You know, I've been putting this-over-that for awhile now, and seldom 
>does
> >it work, for me. ...  I've
> >tried gum over cyanotype, with no success.  Seems that cyanotype doesn't
> >like gelatin (this, according to list members more learned than I) 
>causing
> >fogging.
>
>Can't confirm the latter but the former: gum over cyanotype has never
>worked for me either.  The idea is tempting though:  let cy take care of
>the delicate highlight rendering and print the shadows with gum.  But I
>invariably found that the dichromate nibbles away exactly the cy highlights
>leaving only the shadows that I want to overprint anyway.  If it is just
>for the colour of cy one is much better served with one or more layers of
>Prussian/Parisian Blue.  Other solution: first print the gum layers,
>finally print cy.
>
>André
>
>

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