From: terry roth (terryroth@earthlink.net)
Date: 01/06/01-11:39:32 PM Z
I am trying to find Bostick and Sullivan on the web, nothing coming up.
Have not seen any posts from Dick S. for moths----whassup????
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeffrey D. Mathias <jeffrey.d.mathias@worldnet.att.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: Kid Finish
> Diana Bloomfield wrote:
> > ... I used to use the Cranes for pl/pd prints and loved it, but now I
use Bostick
> > and Sullivan's 'platinotype'--comes in white and a natural, but doesn't
come as
> > small as 8x10. A wonderful paper--has the same qualities as Cranes, ...
>
> This paper is made by the Crane Paper Company. It at first was called
> "Parchment Business Card Stock" and now apparently "Cover 90". This
> paper was optimized by Crane with suggestions from Dick Arentz in the
> late '80s. The original lot number was 5302. The only thing Bostic and
> Sullivan does is distribute it. It got a nickname "platinotype", but
> that seems to have caused some confusion.
>
> The Cover 90 can be obtained from any distributor of Crane paper.
> However one may not find the appropriate lot number (optimized) unless
> they get it from B&S, and even then I do not know how much of that lot
> remaining they have warehoused.
>
>
> A suggestion for the Kid finish paper is to contact a sales rep at Crane
> and see if some full sized sheets can be purchased (without cutting to
> stationary size). If so one could utilize the space between watermarks.
>
> --
> Jeffrey D. Mathias
> http://home.att.net/~jeffrey.d.mathias/
>
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