From: Katharine Thayer (kthayer@pacifier.com)
Date: 06/16/03-08:46:10 AM Z
Hi Chris,
My studio has floor to ceiling north-facing windows and I coat and dry
the gum emulsion right by the windows, or under a regular 60-watt bulb
if the day is too dim to work by daylight, with no ill effect whatever.
There have only been a couple of days in three years that I've felt
there was so much light coming through that I needed to lower the
blinds. There is a west-facing window through which the sun shines
directly onto the coating table in late afternoon during the summer;
unfortunately that window doesn't have a blind. To tell a story on
myself: one day I was working on autopilot and coated a print with the
sun shining right on the coating table, so into what I was doing that I
didn't notice that the sun was there. After I printed and developed the
picture, I was baffled by an odd shape on my print, until it finally
dawned on me that it was the shadow of the windowframe as it fell on the
coated paper. (Duh!) It was a big, important print, so I've never made
that mistake again.
kt
Christina Z. Anderson wrote:
>
> 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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