Re: Gambi Trainwreck II

[William Marsh <redcloud54@earthlink.net>]

Jeff,

Arentz reports on Gampi,  "A drop of Tween 20 per 2 ml coating solution
will greatly improve coating smoothness and also increases Dmax."

Bill

Jeff Buckels wrote:
> 
> Ran another Gampi late last night.  Looks pretty good.  No wrinkles etc.  The
> stuff has a wonderful old parchment look.  Need to work on the dmax....  Also got
> an acceptable Masa.  Picked this stuff up just now from Kinsella....  -jb
> 
> Carl Weese wrote:
> 
> > Jeff,
> >
> > Try gently pressing the sheet in a dry mount press between two mat boards.
> > Creases may go away. This works great with Masa, another thin, tissue-like
> > Japanese paper. Haven't experimented with Gampi.---Carl
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> > ----------
> > >From: Jeff Buckels <jeffbuck@swcp.com>
> > >To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca, o@swcp.com
> > >Subject: Re: Gambi Trainwreck II
> > >Date: Sun, May 19, 2002, 8:40 PM
> > >
> >
> > > Well, the interest in this is plainly limited but I gotta make an addendum
> > > for the sake of accuracy:  So, this Gampi image looked awful on the drying
> > > rack, what w/ all the splotching I wrote about.  Well, that stuff, I dunno,
> > > just dried away.  Issues remain, but not that one....  This Gampi is very
> > > delicate indeed when wet.  Really easy to create creases.  On the dry print,
> > > these creases are arguably cool-looking, but will try double hard to avert
> > > same next session.  -jb
> > >