From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 07/04/03-11:58:35 PM Z
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Jack Brubaker wrote:
> in the past people used other bichromates. So people go off expressing their
> individuality by trying and making claims for other sensitizers. The old
> literature is full of half-cocked ideas written by semiliterates who want us
> to believe how important their work is when it seems their only real claim
> is that they did it differently. But since they can't write we aren't even
> sure of that. And since the art of printing did not afford them the chance
> to illustrate their writing with meaningfull illustrations we cant tell from
> the images.
This has been exactly my experience... I've tried every miracle cockamamie
additive & "trick' in the old literature, of which I have a fair range.
Some do nothing at all, some screw up the print, and others just change
the speed somewhat sometimes... but the print character remains the same.
J.
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