From: Sandy King (sanking@clemson.edu)
Date: 01/05/03-10:16:12 PM Z
Clay,
I may try the 20% oxalic acid treatment with Fabriano Uno for
kallitype since this paper is so well sized and gives great results
with VDB. How long is the dunk, and can you re-use the oxalic acid
solution or do you use it and discard?
Sandy
>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.
>>
>>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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