From: Baird, Darryl (dbaird@umflint.edu)
Date: 08/13/03-02:42:28 PM Z
Well, my wife has been printing with vellum LASER PRINT negs (using
Sam Wang's VDB curves and another I developed for the Cone TEch
piezography inks) and having good succes. She is printing cyanotypes,
also on vellum, and they're pretty nice. I wish the highlights would
clear better, but she's not doing anything to help them to clear
either, so it should be a simple process to size or add a contrast
boost to the sensitizer.
Darryl
-----Original Message-----
From: Katharine Thayer [mailto:kthayer@pacifier.com]
Sent: Wed 8/13/2003 7:56 AM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Cc:
Subject: Clearprint vellum
Kerik Kouklis wrote:
>
> Darryl,
>
> I believe that link goes to Clearprint 1000H, which works fine and
is
> very similar to the Mars.
A tale, in which the joke is on me: A few months ago someone on the
list
suggested ClearPrint vellum for inkjet negatives for gum. I was
skeptical, since I'd tried other vellums before and hadn't found them
to
my liking. But when Kerik said that he printed platinum with
clearprint
vellum and it worked beautifully, I said, okay, if Kerik is satisfied
with platinum prints from this vellum, it must be something extra
special.
So the next time I was in the city, I bought a couple pads of
Clearprint
1000H, came home and made a couple of inkjet negatives. I was
disappointed to find that the clearprint was just like the other
vellums
I'd tried and would not serve at all as a satisfactory substitute for
Pictorico, which had been my hope. I set aside the unopened pad of
11x17 to take back to the store, but what with one thing and another,
I
didn't get back there before the 90 day return period expired. If
anyone wants to make me an offer for it, contact me off list.
Now, of course, I see that Kerik wasn't using the vellum to make
inkjet
negatives to print platinum, as I'd assumed from his earlier comment;
he
was printing platinum directly on vellum, a whole different thing. I
just totally misread his comment.
Katharine
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