From: clay (wcharmon@wt.net)
Date: 02/07/02-07:30:28 AM Z
Dan:
You may want to try some of the 'tricks' people are using for Rives BFK. One
is the 1% oxalic acid pre-coat. This may to help with some of the 'weakness'
you are seeing in your blacks. The other thing is diluting the sensitizer
with distilled water anywhere from 50-100% to give you more liquid volume to
brush around before it sinks from sight. Those two things really make the
BFK a pretty nice paper to use for Pt/Pd, which is notorious for its
spongelike nature. Seems its worth a shot.
Clay
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>From: FDanB@aol.com
>To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
>Subject: Platine has changed...for the worse
>Date: Wed, Feb 6, 2002, 2:18 PM
>
>
>Has anyone else noticed this:
>
>I just started on a batch of Platine that arrived in November (I order
>ahead of time and was still using up the last batch of 22x30 sheets).
>This new batch felt different right out of the box; the reverse side
>texture was smoother and the front seemed a bit smoother too.
>
>The really bad thing (as far as I'm concerned) is that the sizing is MUCH
>LESS than the Platine I've grown used to over the past five years! I used
>to rod coat and then finish smoothing the sensitizer via brush. Now the
>same amount of platinum sensitizer soaks right into the paper. The prints
>are weak and tend to solarize too.
>
>Though there is supposed to be a Batch Number on each pack (a small
>separate white label with a hand-written number, not to be confused with
>the product tag or yellow inspection slip), none of these packs had a
>darn number so there is no way to identify this particular paper run.
>
>I'm just curious as to whether anyone else has experienced this with a
>paper that served me well for so long.
>
>Also, if anyone has any tips (and no, please don't suggest additional
>sizing) on how to adapt to this paper (I leaning toward returning the
>whole lot) please let me know.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Dan
>
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