From: clay (wcharmon@wt.net)
Date: 01/14/02-01:18:48 PM Z
Hey Wendy:
Be sure and try the Oxalic acid trick on Platine as well. It really seems to
help me. Moving air to dry is also very helpful. I live in Houston, and it
often is so humid that the paper would take hours to dry on its own.
Clay
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>From: Wendy Gollihue <wgolli@flash.net>
>To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
>Subject: Re: Papers
>Date: Mon, Jan 14, 2002, 12:19 PM
>
>thanks, jeff
>
>i have the vc journal and article on my knees now.
>
>fantastic quick remedy for buffers!
>
>i have been using the arches platine and just wanted to branch out too.
>
>
>
>AND thanks to all for the responses. Keep coming with feedback.
>
>Wendy (TX)
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <jeffbuck@swcp.com>
>To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
>Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 9:54 AM
>Subject: Re: Papers
>
>
>| Wendy: Internally sized. Very textured surface -- not good or bad, just
>a
>| question of whether you want that or not for a given image. Tough, heavy
>| paper. YOU HAVE TO "RE-ACIDIFY" IT for pt/pd printing, according to
>Stewart
>| Melvin and others. Stewart describes the simple procedure for this in his
>| cover article of View Camera Magazine (2/3 issues ago). The article is
>| generally about doing gum over platinum.... There is a good discussion of
>| numerous papers in Dick Arentz's book Platinum and Palladium Printing....
>| I've been using Platine also and like it fine, but am thinking about doing
>a
>| little branching out. -jeff buckels (albuquerque nm)
>|
>| Wendy Gollihue <wgolli@flash.net> said:
>|
>| > I have been loitering around and gaining lots of insight. Thanks to all
>for
>| > your openness and desire to help others.
>| >
>| > I've tried to check the archives for an answer to this question and
>would
>| > like feedback from you guys.
>| >
>| > I've been doing palladium printing on arches platine. I coat the night
>| > prior to printing and allow to dry overnight naturally. ( I get up
>before
>| > the sun rises of course)
>| >
>| > I want to try other papers that would be successful with palladium.
>Could I
>| > hear about:
>| >
>| > Rives BFK
>| >
>| > Rising Drawing Bristol Plate
>| >
>| > Strathmore 500 Bristol Plate
>| >
>| > Twinrocker Print (Took a risk on this one)
>| >
>| > Any experiences would be helpful to my work and especially about grain,
>| > contrast, your method of application.
>| >
>| > Additionally, is there any way of reducing the buffers in papers prior
>to
>| > sensitizing that could be problematic?
>| >
>| > Wendy
>| > wgolli@flash.net
>| >
>| >
>|
>|
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