From: Breukel, C (HKG) (cor@lumc.nl)
Date: 07/03/02-09:21:34 AM Z
Kees Brandenburg wrote:
>
> Cor and others:
>
> > >Re-registration is always an issue.
>
> Belgium gumprinter Jean Jeanssis once told me about his method when
> re-registration is difficult (he makes very large gumprints). Just
> put your coated paper for a short moment on a lightbox (with tungsten
> or red filtered fluorescent light) and position the negative in
> register with the most important part of the image. This makes the
> image sharp in the most important part and evens out the unsharpness
> on other parts. This works fine with multi layered gum but maybe not
> so good with one layer of gum over cyano/kali/platinum.
..that's actually how I worked with my 18*24 negatives, put register on
the important part, and did not bother any more about the edges beeing
out of register.. Since the base was a (relative) sharp Kallitype, and
the fill in was with gum the resulting sharpness was good enough for
me..
Best,
Cor
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