Re: Fisheyes in Gum

Gary,
     This is exactly what my fisheyes look like. I am able, most of the
time, to keep brushing the gum over them and the paper will finally hold the
gum without fisheying. The paper is rejecting the gum, whether from grease
or sizing or what have you.
     The dark spots feel like just the opposite, as Katharine was saying. I
painted on the gum/pigment, and it immediately got measles. With each coat
of new pigment and development, it never changed, but the measles got
darker. So those areas of the paper are drinking up the gum/pigment and
holding onto it.
     So this batch of paper, for whatever reason--sitting around for a
couple years in my darkroom, perhaps I didn't interleave enough (I really
have a hard time thinking that is the case tho because I did do so, but then
again when I left the batch sitting in my bathtub for the time I was in the
darkroom they remained static, so that could have been the outcome). You
know what tho, I just realized??? I had Rives in there, too, and none of
the Rives did this. So it must be something in the Fabriano paper that
didn't sit well with operator error.
     This is Fabriano with no Uno written on it; hence I think (since Uno
usually says Uno at the bottom of each piece) it may be artistico. Hot
press.
BTW it is not the only image that has this on it; I have about 4 that
exhibit the same weird line, without the spots.
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Nored" <gnored@centurytel.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 12:10 PM
Subject: Fisheyes in Gum

> To add to Katharine's web posting of Chris' gum defects, I added
> two images of defects to my own web page. One picture is of
> defects that sometimes occur when applying a layer of sensitized
> gum. The other shows defects which may appear in the final print.
>
> The links are too long for my mail client's settings. Just go to my
> home page and click on "Gum Printing Defects."
>
> The dark spots on Chris' image look similar to those I encounter,
> but they are much bigger. I've never seen a line like his before
> though.
>
> Any ideas?
> Regards,
> Gary Nored
> http://home.centurytel.net/Gary_Nored/
>
Received on Tue Dec 9 11:30:27 2003