From: Dave Rose (photo@wir.net)
Date: 01/07/02-09:10:33 PM Z
Greetings from Big Wonderful Wyoming,
I've had great results using the formulas in Crawford's "The Keepers of
Light" - gelatin size with a formaldehyde (same as formalin) hardening.
I've never tried chrome alum, so I can't compare.
Dave Rose
Cactus Cowboy
----- Original Message -----
From: "clay" <wcharmon@wt.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 3:06 PM
Subject: newbie question on sizing / hardening
> List members:
>
> I'm getting ready to try my first multiple gum prints and gather from my
> reading that sizing the paper is a necessity. I've done several
> gum-over-platinum prints on Platine and BFK, neither of which have needed
> sizing to do just one or two gum layers. I'm interested in trying a pure
gum
> print now and have run head on into a very diverse set of recipes for
sizing
> paper, most of them having to do with the hardening step. For what its
> worth, my sources to date are 'Coming into Focus', 'Post Factory' and 'The
> book of Alternative Photo Processes', along with a couple of recipes in
Dick
> Arentz's Platinum/Palladium book.
>
> My question is, what are the relative advantages of formaldehyde versus
> formalin versus chrome alum? I've even seen one suggestion in the book
> 'Coming into Focus' (p 34) that recommends nothing other than gelatin for
> sizing. I guess I'm looking for the most effective, easiest and least
smelly
> method.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Clay
>
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