From: Katharine Thayer (kthayer@pacifier.com)
Date: 08/13/03-11:39:10 AM Z
Well, I've made a heck of a lot of gum prints from LASER PRINTER PAPER
negatives and inkjet paper negatives, and I make no apology for them;
they were very nice prints. I certainly wasn't suggesting that inkjet
negatives on vellum wouldn't be great for many purposes, or that many
artists wouldn't find them quite satisfactory. I don't care for them
for my own present purposes, is ALL I was saying. Given the claims that
I thought had been made for the vellum, that one could print platinum
with it, I had hoped I could use it instead of Pictorico, which I don't
like because even a tiny drop of water ruins it and I live in a rainy
climate and have to go outside to get from my computer to the studio
where I print gum. But the vellum makes a softer gum print than the
Pictorico, and the tonal gradations aren't as subtle and smooth as with
the Pictorico; it's more like paper in that respect than like film. This
would be fine for lots of things, but doesn't work for what I've been
doing lately, is all I was saying.
kt
Baird, Darryl wrote:
>
> 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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