RE: Crane's Museo

I'm pretty novice in Pt/Pd printing but know that alkali paper is no
good for pt/pd (and your paper's PH is on the alkali side). Maybe your
paper is buffered with calcium carbonate? Maybe Dan Burkholder treats
the paper in 1.5% oxalic acid first?

BTW...

Dear platium gurus: what's the deal with oxalic acid? Why can't we use
cheaper and easier to find citric acid in order to neutralize the alkali
buffer in the paper?

Regards,
Loris.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: res1dvao@verizon.net [mailto:res1dvao@verizon.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 12:48 AM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca;
> alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: RE: Crane's Museo
>
>
> I read on his web site that Dan Burkholder prints on Crane's
> Museo so I bought some. For the life of me I could not get
> anything but a weak, light brown from Plt/Pla even with
> double coating. Tried my chemicals on another paper and got
> strong, solid dark color.
>
> Crane says the paper has a "velina finish" with a pH of 7.9-8.5.
>
> Anybody have any experience with this paper and what seems to
> be the problem?
>
> George
Received on Sun Nov 14 16:59:34 2004