RE: Gum Tri-Color Yellow

Thanks, Chris....I'm doing some duotone tests at the moment and made the
mistake of buying Ivory Black - what a wretched pigment for my
purposes!!! Yecchhhhhh.the Payne's grey is a bit bluey tho - I'm going
to get some Neutral Tint and see how that prints. I'm finding that
printing the C layer twice, once for the midtowns and once for shadows,
is helping out a lot with contrast.

Cheers
Kate

-----Original Message-----
From: Christina Z. Anderson [mailto:zphoto@uslink.net]
Sent: Thursday, 8 July 2004 1:08 p.m.
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: Gum Tri-Color Yellow

> How many of you gum printers use four separations? I have read that
the
> K carries much of the contrast and therefore screws up colour balance.
I
> was just wondering who prefers RGB, who prints with CMYK??????

Kate,
     I use RGB separations. When I print with a cyano layer, the dark
cyano
layer masks any dull dark with zing. Which is why my original
suggestion to
up pigment (the blue layer) was made. Either printing the cyano deep
enough
or printing another layer of blue over any dull dark should do the
trick--similar to what you suggest with the Payne's Gray. I'll have to
try
your idea and see if Payne's is better than thalo, as per Bill's
suggestion
of using a black layer, I would think Payne's would be closer.
Chris

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