From: Jack Brubaker (jack@jackbrubaker.com)
Date: 03/03/03-09:57:10 AM Z
Judy,
I wrote you off list some time ago that I had good luck scuffing sizing that
was to slick (and had caused coating to fall off in dev.)with a
"scotch-brite pad. Light back and forth motion side to side and up and down
roughened the surface of my acrylic size enough to allow further coats to
print well. Recently I had a couple sheets that I had been careless with and
got too much size. I did'nt realize the problem until I was painting the the
gum solution on the paper and noticed the fish-eyes forming in the coating.
In the past I've just done the best I could to smooth the gum with repeated
brushing as it dried and hoped for the best. In most cases if I've seen
fish-eyes as I coated the gum would fall off during developement. This time
I used a small (1 1/2" square) cut-off of regular green kitchen scotch-brite
on the wet emulsion. It's small size didn't use up much gum. I rubbed
gently, pushing the gum around until the sizing was scuffed enough to stop
the fish-eyes from forming, brushed the emulsion smooth, and hung the paper
up to dry. It printed fine. Now theres a tool our great grand fathers didn't
have. So often it seems we work so hard to find a good woking method only to
realize it was done way before us and we hadn't realized that was what an
earlier writer meant until we tried it ourselves. Someone probably used a
similiar scuffing through the wet gum but the scotch-brite is wonderfull.
Its chemically inert and rinses out to be used again.
Don't know if this will be of use to other media...
Jack Brubaker
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