From: Kate Mahoney (kateb@paradise.net.nz)
Date: 09/27/03-09:39:16 PM Z
No densitometer - it scares me!!! they pretty much LOOK the same to me...I
never print with oiled negs until they are at least a week old and the oil
has soaked thru evenly. The copysafe pockets as we quaintly call them here
in darkest New Zealand ;) will be perfectly familiar to you as those plastic
pouches we use to store printed copy and keep it clean...available in boxes
of 100 here, I use them to store all my diginegs.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: Van Dykes
>
>
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Kate Mahoney wrote:
> > I printed the negs, oiled them lightly on the back with canola oil using
a
> > brush, left them overnight to soak up the oil and then blotted them off.
> > I've been storing these ones in copysafe pockets ever since, (about 3-4
> > months) and they show no signs of deterioration whatsoever. The cost is
much
> > less than an inkjet neg. As I'm on a student budget, this is very good
news!
>
> Kate, I'm intrigued by your storing the oiled negs in copysafe pockets...
> could you describe them more exactly? When I tested oiled paper negs, I
> found that they started drying out, curve changing, growing denser, by the
> second day.... so I decided they should be beeswaxed, which is more
> trouble, but pretty permanent. BUT, if the copysafe pocket, whatever it
> is, keeps them... great !!! (Did you check by densitometer or just find
> that the negs printed the same?)
>
> Judy
>
>
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