From: Jack Brubaker (jack@jackbrubaker.com)
Date: 06/16/03-03:49:30 PM Z
Chris,
I coat gum on a bench under flouresecent light. I do hang them to dry in a
darkened space. I use the utility room now with a red household bulb
burning. I have dried my paper in the past in closets, in dresser drawers,
in cabinets (not light tight photo stuff - just an old kitchen cab.),in a
cardboard box, and in the trunk of the car. Find a large cardboard box and
cut a door in it and hang clothes pins in it... throw a dark colored sheet
or blanket over the crude door once it is loaded. Or skip the door and cover
one end of an open box with a blanket. If you fear fogging the paper with
keeping it in the box while you work, take it out once it is dry enough on
the surface to not stick to anything and interleave your sensitized sheets
in a large sketchbook. I have stored paper this was overnight in the fridge
with no change in it's working nature from prints made the night before. A
spiral bound book of black paper would be nice for this, but I don't have
one.
The more light I can have where I coat paper the better job I can do getting
it right. And yes I'll second Keith that I have coated paper outside on the
shady side of the building, but always brought it in to dry.
Jack
> From: "Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net>
> Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:46:31 -0500
> To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
> Subject: Re: a newbie's first post: gum, temperaprint,
> oil printing,sizing,and computer negatives
>
> Good to know, Jack. A question for you or other gum printers/alt printers:
> I am setting up a temp darkroom here in MN where I will be for a month.
> After hearing that, was it you or Keith who actually coated paper outside in
> the garage and let it dry?? Like in full on light?? I was wondering if I
> could really coat and dry the paper in room light or should I cover the
> windows? For gum and pt/pd, that is, oh and cyano. I have always done all
> under a bug light. See, if I cover the windows, not much air will get thru
> and it is quite hot in there. No air conditioning of course. I have found
> out from the list that a bug light is really unnecessary, but I'm wondering
> if even incandescent is really unnecessary, too...also remembering Laura
> Gilpin used to coat her platinums in her sunny livingroom.
> Chris
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jack Brubaker" <jack@jackbrubaker.com>
> To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 2:19 PM
> Subject: Re: a newbie's first post: gum, temperaprint, oil
> printing,sizing,and computer negatives
>
>
>>
>> "Christina Z. Anderson" wrote
>> I only worried about it being dry enough to not wreck the neg,
>>> but with diginegs it probably wouldn't be the end of the world to wreck
> a
>>> neg that costs 40 cents.
>>
>> Chris,
>>
>> Working in southern Indiana I have some great humidity to deal with. The
>> concrete slab of the room I work in (with outside door hanging open to the
>> woods outside) being cooler than the air condences water and gets swampy
> in
>> the summer. I hang my gumed paper to dry in the adjoining utility room
> where
>> the furnace and waterheater are located. In summer the waterheater (gas)
>> drys that area enough that paper is ready almost as fast as I can organize
>> the negs. etc. for printing.
>>
>> Jack
>>
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