From: clay (wcharmon@wt.net)
Date: 01/30/02-05:00:08 PM Z
Jeff:
I actually meant the drying method after coating as being a possible culprit
in fragility, but you may be on to something with the final drying method.
Probably not a good idea to take a print that is the least bit damp and toss
it into a pile of other prints. Down here in Houston, where we sometimes
have to use a knife to cut a hunk of air to breath, it can take a while.
Clay
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>From: jeffbuck@swcp.com
>To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
>Subject: Re: WHICH LENNOX?
>Date: Wed, Jan 30, 2002, 4:52 PM
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>Clay, Carl and All: (1) I use Kerik's and Stewart's magic brush. Love it.
>This for those listening is the Richeson 9500 (I think the number is) brush,
>which costs like $80-$90 (gasp). (2) Picking up on the sub-thread re:
>fragility of Platine and drying method. As a general rule, I've been drying
>like so: Out of the final wash and onto a clothes-pin-on-a-wire for a minute
>or two, turn 90 degrees for another minute or two. On to the ambient-air-only
>drying screen. The ambient humidity varies by season and weather, of course,
>but around 30-40 this time of year. I really don't know how fast the prints
>dry at this rate, because I go out of my way to leave them be (I think
>there's a superstitious impulse at work there), but I'm thinking pretty dang
>dry in an hour or so but not really really dry for a couple more (?). I guess
>I've thought of this as a very careful/robust drying technique, as opposed to
>forced air of any kind (I will do that w/ testers and other rough drafts)....
> -JB
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>clay <wcharmon@wt.net> said:
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>> Carl wrote:
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>> I've had a problem with
>> >Platine ending up with a fragile finished print surface that nearly needs
>to
>> >be handled like a charcoal or pastel drawing. The Lenox seems quite immune
>> >to scuffing or abrasion.
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>> Carl:
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>> I haven't really noticed this. How are you drying it after coating? With
>> heat and forced air, moving ambient air, what? Just wondering if the time it
>> takes the sensitizer to soak in may be a factor in fragility with Platine.
>>
>> Clay
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