From: Carl Weese (cweese@earthlink.net)
Date: 10/21/02-04:20:25 PM Z
Jeff,
I've had two different looking "batches" of Masa among several I've ordered
from Kinsella. One is distinctly cooler and more transluscent that the other
*before processing*. The two batches are virtually impossible to distinuish
once the full processing is over. As for blue, Masa is the coolest-color
white paper I'm aware of and if you use a normal white paper like Platine,
or Stonehenge White, as a comparison then Masa is "blue" by contrast. But
I'd still say that it is simply devoid of yellowness, while most "white"
papers are on the warm side of true neutral. Premium inkjet papers look blue
next to a sheet of Platine, too.
I don't find Masa difficult to handle wet, given care. I routinely make
12x20's on it, though at that size I do process by pouring the successive
chemicals in and out of a single tray with the sheet of Masa "trapped" to
the bottom, rather than moving the sheet from tray to tray.
---Carl
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>From: jeffbuck@swcp.com
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Masa
>Date: Mon, Oct 21, 2002, 11:07 AM
>
> Although I've not strayed much from Platine in the year or so I've been doing
> this stuff, I pull out a little stash of Masa I have from time to time. Masa
> has some good points. Interesting surfaces on both sides, both very usable.
> Pretty easy to coat. Startlingly cheap. The one important drawback I see is
> that it is very delicate. You have to be real careful in the wet
> processing.... A couple questions -- I've heard it said (can't recall where)
> that it can be effective to mount a Masa print on colored mat board. Masa,
> like other Japanese papers (I'm told), is quite translucent. Has anyone done
> this? How? With what effect? Finally, the "Masa" I have, which I got from
> Kinsella, has a distinct cool (bluish) cast. This confuses me, becase Arentz
> in his book describes the paper as "bright white" and Carl Weese, for one,
> blinked with bafflement when I mentioned this phenomenon to him. Not that
> it's a problem -- I've printed straight palladiums on Masa, and the result is
> a good solid warm tone in the image area, including the hightlights (that is,
> there's no remnant I can see of the cool tone of the unprocessed paper).
> Still, I'd like to know what's up with that. What is the color of the Masa
> any of you have purchased? Where did you get it? Is "Masa" the general term
> for an array of different commercial products (as "Gampi" is)? Thanks. -jeff
> buckels
>
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