Re: Back-exposing on plastic

Katharine,

Dave's response was based only on the single transfer method of
making carbon prints and was misleading. There are two common ways to
make carbon transfer prints, single transfer and the double transfer.
Double transfer carbon on paper would be mechanically analogous to
exposing a gum print from the rear and then transferring the image to
paper (if it can be done.)

The correct procedure to attempt for the gum transfer would be, 1)
expose the gum print from the back, and when dry, 2) attempt to
transfer it to paper.

Sandy

>
>And so am I, obviously, but I think you've missed my point entirely.
>We seem to agree that it's by exposing through the substrate that
>one can get this full and continuous tonal scale that we've all been
>excited about, including myself (although I have not yet been able
>to replicate it in spite of working on it the entire day) but the
>transfer method Marek attempted today and the method Dave was
>recommmending requires, apparently, exposing from the top. Since
>one can get a better image exposing from the top directly onto paper
>than you can get exposing from the top onto plastic, my question
>is,
>what would be the advantage to transferring a less fully tonal image
>to paper than you could get by printing directly onto paper in the
>first place? That was my point.
>
>Katharine Thayer
Received on Tue Apr 18 05:35:50 2006