From: Clay (wcharmon@wt.net)
Date: 01/05/03-09:52:19 PM Z
Sandy:
Legion papers sent me a sample pack of papers to test the other day,
and I had a chance Friday to run some pd printing tests on three of the
papers that had close-to-neutral pH. I treated all of them with a 2%
oxalic acid dunk-and-dry prior to printing. All were done in pure
palladium with potassium oxalate at 120 degrees on a negative with
enough contrast to print without any restrainers. Here are the quickie
impressions:
1.Somerset 300 gsm - Very sharp with very warm smooth tones. Best
contrast and visual snap. Very comparable to Platine except for a
little more texture. ( Not an objectionable amount of texture, even
with a 5x7 print)
2. Pescia - muddy tones, low contrast and Dmax, Texture is nice, but
the print stunk compared to platine.
3. Lanquerelle 300 gsm - decent Dmax, very sharp print. Contrast a
little low, especially in the shadows.
Quick summary is that the Somerset is the only paper that gets close to
either Platine or Whatmans in a subjective evaluation of snap and
sharpness.
Clay
On Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 09:32 PM, Sandy King wrote:
> Thanks to all of you who responded to my inquiry about papers for
> platinum printing. Although I am not making platinum prints many of
> the papers that work well for platinum appear to also work well for
> the form of kallitype I use, thus the original question.
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> So far I am managed to get some samples of Crane's Platine, Masa and
> Lenox and have tested these with kallitype. However, although all of
> these papers worked well with kallitype they did not improve the
> appearance of detail that I have been getting with Stonhenge. So my
> question is this, are there still platinum papers out there that will
> give better detail than Platine, Masa and Lenox? I would like to be
> able to use Fabriano Uno because with VDB it gives better detail than
> Stonhenge but unfortunately it does not work out of the box for me
> with kallitype.
>
> I do offer one caveat on the use of Lenox with kallitype, however. It
> is very difficult to clear, much more so than Stonhenge for example,
> and also very easy to tear. Masa is also very easy to tear, but I
> guess you pt/pd printers already know all of this!
>
> Sandy King
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