Ender100@aol.com
Date: 09/10/02-01:30:22 PM Z
Katherine,
I can't speak with any authority until Sam Wang stops laughing at my attempts
at gum printing. I would be interested, if you would be willing to share,
what paper you found worked best for sharp gum prints. Also, I have found
the digital negatives look pretty sharp and detailed on platinum. Do you
think they are not so with gum? If so, any idea why that would be?
Mark Nelson
"Went South With The Geese and Flew Home Alone"
In a message dated 9/10/02 2:45:20 PM, kthayer@pacifier.com writes:
<< Last winter, needing to make a change in gum printing paper (due to a
change for the worse in the paper I was using, combined with a direction
in my own work that called for more smoothness and subtlety than the hot
press watercolor paper I'd been using could provide) I ran dozens of
test gum prints, contact printing from a 4x5 negative containing very
fine detail. I was even surprised at the fineness of detail that the gum
could hold from a small contact print, and I've never been one to argue
that gum can't do detail. The limiting factor was the paper, not the
gum. >>
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