Re: Gum on Azo?

Sandy,

Its certainly good news that carbon tissue is soon to be available again,
although I would describe making it as messy and time-consuming rather
than difficult. I only ever did it at home when my wife was away for a
few days, and I had plenty of time to clear up before she came back.

And of course, I was also using commercial carbon tissue rather less than
several decades ago, from Autotype, which did work. The problem was it was
only in a muddy brown which seldom appealed at least to me, though some
tried to make it sound better by calling it 'sanguine', I preferred the
technical term 'bloody awful'.

But a new source of high quality tissue might well tempt me back to
producing more carbon prints. I've always considered carbon printing as a
superb medium for black and white printing. They can have a quality other
methods simply can't match.

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> Joe,
>
> Putting aside for the moment the question of how this might be done,
> what do you hope to achieve with this combination? Are you hoping to
> add archival quality to the silver paper, or are you just after a
> special kind of look?
>
> If you are after a look that combines maximal archival qualities with
> super sharpness you might consider carbon, which can give you as much
> (or even greater) sharpness than silver gelatin papers, and with the
> permanence of pigmented gelatin.
>
> Carbon printing has been very difficult for several decades because
> of the fact that one had to make their own carbon tissue. This is
> soon to change because B&S is about to offer on a commercial basis
> carbon tissue, perhaps as early as February or March of 2004.
>
> Sandy King
>

>
> >I have a project where the sharpness of the prints is paramount, and
> >my intention is to shoot 8x10 (I have a 480mm Ronar in a Prontor
> >Professional 3 shutter I have been itching to use) and contact print
> >those. I was thinking of trying Azo, or another manufactured paper,
> >reasoning that that would best retain the sharpness I'm looking for.
> >The only potential problem is that I would like to do a single-gum
> >layer on top of the prints. Would Azo hold up in the washing, or is
> >there something about the paper that is incompatible? If not Azo, is
> >there a manufactured paper someone could recommend for a project
> >like this?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >-Joe
>
>
Received on Wed Dec 3 03:59:23 2003