Re: fastest gum printer in the west-er-east

OHHHH, Osky, I need to clarify. I first put the prints in a tray of water
face up, to soften and release the dichromate, then face down. After maybe
5 or 10 minutes, then I spray them, and give a quick final rinse after
spraying and then hang to dry. You soften the gumprint in water first
before spraying. I actually got the idea from the old books. Demachy and
Maskell believed that if you just automatically developed the print without
manipulation of a major sort, you were not using the process to its fullest
advantage :) They sprayed and sponged and droppered water and used enema
hoses (LOL). But they didn't have plastic Walmart spray bottles!
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fotoalquimia" <info@fotoalquimia.com.ar>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: fastest gum printer in the west-er-east

> Christina:
> How did you do it with a spray bottle??
> Isn't it very little water?
> How did you rinse it after developingo??
>
> Osky Burstein
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@bellsouth.net>
> To: "Alt List" <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 9:55 AM
> Subject: fastest gum printer in the west-er-east
>
>
> > A while back someone (forgive me, I forget, but was it Miguel?) posted a
> > time chart about how long it took to do a gum print, and I saved it to
> show
> > my professors but then a snafu with my email erased all saved messages.
> >
> > Anyway, midterm reviews are today, and yesterday I kid you not: I
coated
> 9
> > (!) gums, exposed, developed, and hung to dry in 1 hour and 15 minutes.
I
> > layer of tricolor, 7 8x11's and 2 11x17's.
> >
> > How was this possible? Drying the layers with a hair dryer, and
> developing
> > them with a spray bottle, with a little mania tossed in (I had only a 1
> 1/2
> > hour window of opportunity before I had to leave to TA so necessity was
> the
> > mother of invention).
> >
> > *Normally* a gum layer will take me 3 hours to do 9 (not including
drying
> > time). Then with 3 layers, plus sizing time and producing the digineg
> time,
> > accounting for failures or less than perfect prints, I figure I have
about
> 4
> > hours per print.
> >
> > I'm running out of sized paper. Good news: I'll be testing Ryuji's
> > glutyrlaldehyde (sp) hardener soon, with the next batch.
> >
> > Back to work.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Tue Mar 2 07:45:27 2004