From: Richard Urmonas (rurmonas@senet.com.au)
Date: 06/20/03-04:47:30 PM Z
On 2003.06.21 04:19 Michael Heath wrote:
> I am about to buy a mercury vapor lamp for palladium printing, and
> wanted to know if 160 watts was sufficient to print small (i.e. 4x5
> maximum) prints with reasonable exposure times (under 10 minutes). I
> think the lamp would be positioned about a foot above the paper. I
> see in the archives that 250-400 watts or so is recommended, but I'm
> not sure I need this due to the small size of my prints. Appreciate
> any advice.
I use a 400 W lamp. The price difference between the 160W and 400W
was very little (maybe 10%) so I went with the higher wattage. As I
recall
the 400W reflector was only a little larger than the 160W, so the 160W
will not save much space, and also print rather more slowly.
Richard
--- Richard Urmonas rurmonas@senet.com.au
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