Re: spots and fish eyes

Christina,

It is hard to visualize how the fish eyes look like. Could you describe
more?

Are you using acrylic sizing?

Dave S

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net>
To: "Alt List" <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 7:53 AM
Subject: spots and fish eyes

> Good morning all!
> I was wondering what the group consensus is on the cause of fish eyes
> in gum printing? Is it because the gum/pigment mix is too "limpid" as
one
> old author said (too watery)? Or is there another cause? This same
author
> talked about gum, when being mixed with the dichromate, goes into little
> microscopic globules that causes this. Or spotty sizing?
> In the same vein, I have a most unusual print I did this week that I
> would love Ed Buffaloe to show on his site (Ed?); it is really funny. It
> fits with my project, which is using negs from my dad's collection from
the
> late 20's to the late 40's, digitizing the odd shaped negs, and printing
> them out so they look like when people were trying to make black and white
> color (can you tell I am not very eloquent this morning...) Anyway, there
> are all these black spots all over one side, and a line down thru the
middle
> that looks like water damage. I am very sure it is uneven sizing of the
> Fabriano paper--probably due to operator error in that with my shrinking
of
> the paper I put one too many pieces of paper in my bathtub and did not
> agitate enough, or perhaps it could be manufacturer error. Anyone have a
> similar problem?
> Chris
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Received on Mon Dec 8 13:42:28 2003