Re: tempraprint why yupo

From: Hellena Cleary ^lt;hellena@hncleary.plus.com>
Date: 02/15/06-03:53:40 AM Z
Message-id: <006301c63215$b343b9e0$0301a8c0@home>

As Dennis said, I have Temperaprinted on a piece of 10x14 polished marble.
I would have liked to do more but I ran out of marble.Unfortunately it is
too heavy to travel. I will try again if I can get some more marble. Any
old tombstones or pastry slabs out there? Hellena
----- Original Message -----
From: "dklinker" <d.klinker@ntlworld.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: tempraprint why yupo

> Barry this is one of the amazing properties of the Temperaprint emulsion
it
> seems to be amazingly robust i have seen Temperaprints that Peter Fredrick
> has made on Glass and i have seen Temperaprints that Hellena Cleary has
made
> on Onyx.Using Yupo as a support allows very quick working,usually the
> emulsion coats are dried with a hair dryer using this technique with a
> porous support would need different working methods.But be warned
> Temperprinting is infectious.Dennis Klinker
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "bsinger" <bsinger@sasktel.net>
> To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 5:31 PM
> Subject: tempraprint why yupo
>
>
> > I have read Peter Fredrick's enlightening explanation of the tempraprint
> > process that appears at unblinkingeye and seen his wonderful pictures
> > that use that process. But I do not understand why one has to use a
> > plastic base such as Yupo. Even that article says you can use a heavily
> > sized water coloar paper. A bit of an explanation occurs in his article
> > where he says :
> > "As previously stated, because the egg is naturally viscous and
> > adhesive it will coat onto any suitably prepared surface. However what
> > has to be born in mind is it must be coated onto a surface, not
> > into a surface. This is the fundamental difference between Gum and Egg
> > methodology. I have been using a laminated
> > polypropylene plastic paper known as Yupo for the past fifteen years. I
> > have prints on my front room gallery wall that date from 1985 that show
> > no loss of quality. The paper facilitates a stain free surface,
> > and is dimensionally stable, allowing an extremely accurate system of
> > registration, thus in one stroke solving technical
> > problems inherent in other processes. Other surfaces such polyester
> > Melamex or a heavily sized Watercolour paper.can also be imployed as
> > long as the egg does not impregnate the surface."
> >
> > Has anyone tried tempraprint on other surfaces?
> >
> > Barry
>
Received on Wed Feb 15 03:52:02 2006

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