From: Carl Weese (cweese@earthlink.net)
Date: 12/18/01-11:03:11 AM Z
Katherine,
I've never made a gum print, but I suspect you are correct and that with all
these processes all definitive answers (or non-answers) are bogus. There was
a recent thread about excess stain density using pyro developers. I couldn't
help much, not because I've cleverly solved the problem, but because I've
never experienced it. That doesn't mean it isn't happening to others who are
theoretically doing exactly the same thing I am--just that it doesn't happen
here in my lab. *Any* result obtained by a competent worker will be
informative but may not actually happen in another person's darkroom. Maybe
it will happen in my lab next year and I'll be glad to have the information.
Meanwhile, what works here and now, works. What worked somewhere else,
worked there. If someone simply propagates misinformation from a "source"
without personal testing, that wastes everyone's time. But it's completely
unfounded to assume someone did that just because one's personal tests fail
to confirm.
---Carl
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