RE: Changes in Arches?

I think that seeing I'm in New Zealand the information wouldn't be that
much help - goodness knows how old, new or anything in between our paper
is, also whether we're talking about the same paper. Anyhow what I was
buying was Arches Aquarelle, the watercolour paper, and the number was
never listed. I used it in 2002 and 2003, and will probably get some
more next year. I've had those uneven sizing problems with the
Hahnemuhle several times, the latest last week! All from the same packet
of paper tho. It pushes silver emulsion off the surface too so I think
I'll flag it for all alt work. I really wanted the Hahnemuhle
watercolour paper. Are there any N.Z lurkers who know where I might get
this ?

Kate

-----Original Message-----
From: Katharine Thayer [mailto:kthayer@pacifier.com]
Sent: Saturday, 27 November 2004 11:55 p.m.
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: Changes in Arches?

Kate M wrote:
>
> Hi Katherine, I'm not printing with Arches at the moment, but I must
> say I never had the odour problem - and I have a very keen sense of
> smell.

Ah, I was thinking you were one who had remarked on the smell, but I
must have you mixed up with someone else. But I'm curious now what
period of time you were printing with (or more to the point, ordering)
Arches paper. Of course that isn't definitive either, since it was at
least two years after Livick had declared Arches unusable due to factory
inconsistencies, that I started noticing a problem; I suppose Daniel
Smith must have been working off a sizable stock of the earlier stuff
and that's why I didn't start getting the paper with problems until
later.

About the smell: when I first started using Arches regularly, I was
always pouring lemon juice down the drains to freshen them and searching
bathrooms and closets for maybe a wet towel that someone had left wadded
up and mildewing; it was that kind of smell. Eventually I realized that
the smell was present only when there was wet Arches in the vicinity.
Katharine

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