From: Carl Weese (cweese@earthlink.net)
Date: 02/21/02-12:33:00 PM Z
Jeff,
First thing is to do an operation like this "by feel", not by distance,
time, measurements. You are correct to observe Platine absorbing moisture
much faster than Lenox, at least I've noticed the same thing clearly in my
very different humid New England conditions. With practice, by learning what
the paper should feel like you skip over an endless search for how many
minutes at what humidity at what temperature...doing that numerically is the
hard way. Each paper will still want a different feel, but you learn that
one thing for each paper. In this, alt photo printing has a lot in common
with other printmaking crafts where much of the work is done by feel.---Carl
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>From: jeffbuck@swcp.com
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: High and Dry
>Date: Thu, Feb 21, 2002, 12:46 PM
>
> Doing pt/pd here in the desert southwest, one is challenged to coat and print
> paper that's moist enough for the purpose. I've had mixed success w/ the
> Walgreen's sonic mister -- not bad but not great. Hard to be consistent
> because really hard to measure what you're accomplishing with the mister. I
> stay with a certain distance from the paper (~8") and a certain duration
> (~1'), but I'm pretty sure that ambient humidity, temperature and, maybe most
> important, paper type vary the effect (Platine suddenly feels "heavy" after
> 40-50 seconds in front of the mist, but I haven't noticed that with Lenox).
> On a typically dry-as-a-bone winter day here in Albuquerque, I'm think the
> paper dries significantly in the 10 seconds or so between misting and
> coating.... So, any ideas about creating or maintaining paper moisture in dry
> climes? -jeff buckels
>
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