Re: Arches Platine

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From: clay (wcharmon@wt.net)
Date: 02/02/02-09:37:55 PM Z


Anybody have any instructions for platine origami?

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>From: Jeff Buckels <jeffbuck@swcp.com>
>To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
>Subject: Re: Arches Platine
>Date: Sat, Feb 2, 2002, 10:48 AM
>

>Clay and All: Stewart Melvin put me onto this kind of inspection of Platine.
>So, I'd go to this good local art supply store and tell the clerk to just plop
>the top pack of Platine in front of me and let me alone to pick out a few
>sheets. Permitted. So, I'd laboriously hold sheet after sheet up to the
>ceiling flourescent lights (which Stewart specified) and search for specks.
>I'd reject at least half the sheets. In the end I got clean sheets which
>pretty much solved the speck problem. BUT that meant I had to go storefront
>retail, and the 22/30 sheets of Platine were (are) $6.25 or something like
>that a sheet. Unacceptable. And I feel getting Platine through the mail is
>unacceptable (can't examine!). I'm trying Lenox this weekend, Platinotype
>soon as I can get around to it. -jeff buckels
>
>clay wrote:
>
>> Katherine:
>> I was about ready to have a bonfire last week after a bout with the
>> speckles. After letting my blood pressure drop, I had a better session
>> yesterday by carefully inspecting each sheet by holding it up against a 60
>> watt light and carefully looking for any specks. I rejected about 1 in 4
>> sheets and had minimal problems this time. Still a few tiny spots
>> occasionally, but all fixable.
>>
>> If this paper didn't make such great prints, I'd have ditched it long ago.
>> It appears that bits of something are falling into the paper when it is
>> made, because almost all of them appear to be within the paper itself. The
>> lesson learned: check very carefully before spreading anything on this
>> paper.
>>
>> It makes a great gum-over paper if only one gum layer is contemplated.
>>
>> Clay
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>> >From: Katharine Thayer <kthayer@pacifier.com>
>> >To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
>> >Subject: Re: Arches Platine
>> >Date: Sat, Feb 2, 2002, 1:02 AM
>> >
>>
>> >I've been spending a fair amount of time with Arches Platine the last
>> >few weeks, evaluating it for a gum printing paper. Some observations:
>> >
>> >It has two different apparently sizing-related "issues." The first is
>> >the blotchiness it develops when wet, which disappears on drying and
>> >doesn't appear to affect the image. The second is apparent in some
>> >sheets and not in others. It appears immediately on coating; it
>> >manifests as very small dark spots or speckles where the coating is
>> >absorbed differentially; and once it has made its appearance, the print
>> >is not salvageable, (unless of course the printer finds the speckles
>> >attractive).
>> >
>> >I have found that ammonia, which I use as a chemical "dodger" in the
>> >development stage of gum printing, is useless with Platine. With other
>> >papers, I can float ammonia across an area that I want to be a bit
>> >lighter, and the ammonia will gently loosen and lift excess hardened gum
>> >and pigment there while leaving the image intact. With Platine, the
>> >ammonia blasts right through the image and out the back of the paper.
>> >The wet spot it leaves in the back of the paper will disappear on
>> >drying, but the white spot in the print where the gum and pigment were
>> >stripped off the paper is there forever.
>> >
>> >kt
>> >
>


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