From: Sandy King (sanking@clemson.edu)
Date: 03/08/03-09:12:34 AM Z
Scott,
Suggested coating procedure.
Coat on a clean, flat surface and secure the print at two sides with
either tape or pins so that it can not move during coating.
Apply a nice thick coat of solution to the paper with a brush. I
recommend a minimum of 2ml of solution per 8X10 print. Brush until
there is no more puddling of the sensitizer on the paper. It is very
important to know when to stop brushing: too soon and you will get
dark splotches on the print, too long and you will get streaking. My
feeling is that the addition of gum arabic would greatly complicate
this particular step.
After you finish brushing leave the coated paper flat on the support
for about 5 minutes to allow the sensitizer to soak in evenly, them
remove and hang to dry. For both of these steps I direct air from a
small fan over the coated paper.
At temperature of 70F and RH of 55-65% the paper will be completely
dry in about 15 minutes. I do not recommend the use of heated air, as
from a hair blower.
Sandy King
>Hi Judy,
>
>Yes, I was using a hairdryer on the lowest setting. I have used it in the
>past without any problems but I think I am going to take the heating
>elements out of it so I get only room temp air. Could that have been the
>problem?
>
>Scott
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com>
>To: "Alt Photo List" <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
>Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 12:32 AM
>Subject: Re: Kallitypes again
>
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Scott Wainer wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I'm having a bad night tyring to print kallitypes and thought someone
>> > could shed some light on what might have been going wrong. My prints
>> > seem to be solarizing in the shadow areas, coming out splotchy, and
>> > printing extreamly quick (2-3 minutes) under a bank of UV flourescents.
>>
>>
>> Are you heat drying?
>>
>> J.
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