Re: Gum Tri-Color Yellow

Kate,
You just ring my bell.
You print "C" layer twice once for midtones and another for shadows, do you
mean you generate two different negatives one for each?
How do you do it otherwise?
Thanks,
Giovanni

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kate M" <kateb@paradise.net.nz>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:15 PM
Subject: 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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