Re: Autoclaving gum and gelatin

From: Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>
Subject: Re: Autoclaving gum and gelatin
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 01:52:12 -0500 (EST)

> I daresay you can go higher and blah blah blah blah, but I know from
> experience -- from having seen dozens of students suddenly have speckles
> all over their prints, -- that it can be lethal for gum printing, which
> was the process at issue, remember?
>
> Tracing the print history back, there was (in the case of speckles) just
> about every time, the finding that they had developed the print by hosing
> with scalding water or overheated the gelatin in melting it, or some other
> excess application of heat.
>
> On the bright side, one student who'd done this recoated with "normal"
> gelatin and was able to rescue several sheets of paper. Still,

So what the other "dozens" minus one do?
And how long is the "history" that you are talking about?

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Ryuji Suzuki
"People seldom do what they believe in.  They do what is convenient,
then repent." (Bob Dylan, Brownsville Girl, 1986)