Re: Pre-shrink paper for gum (oa to Katherine)

On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, Christina Z. Anderson wrote:

> ... Gum is
> not like a gelatin silver print, where fogging will ruin a print, or, at
> least, if minimal, make the print not "zing". You can still get the gum to
> budge off the highlights by the soak in development--in other words, up to a
> point it is not irreparable, as it is in BW printing. Who knows; maybe the
> extra exposure fog adds stability to the gum layer.

Some years ago I tested dried-in-the-dark for 30 minutes strips vs.
dried-in-roomlight for 30 minute strips. They were essentially the same
except the dried in roomlight had more dichromate stain, quite a lot more,
come to think of it. Which come to think of it could be one reason why
some printers have more dichromate stain than others -- where they dry?

J.
Received on Sat Apr 3 17:53:13 2004