RE: Gums a la Demachy and Puyo and all sorts of other things

I don't see what's over complicated with New Cyanotype. Making New Cyanotype
emulsion is pretty easy and the process of making the emulsion takes not
more than 10 mins - including heating water - but there's an approx. one
hour wait for the potassium oxalate crystallization and precipitation -
which I don't consider a problem at all; I can do many other things during
that one hour... New Cyanotype achieve something very important to me: high
dmax with just one coat. New Cyanotype is easier to coat because paper
absorbs the sensitizer more easily; I never had grainy results with New
Cyanotype (had grainness with some of my Classic Cyanotypes - I don't have
problems with coating Classic Cyanotype BTW, New Cyanotype is just easier).
The only issue that can be mentioned as a problem is: it chooses paper. (But
it must be noted that this bad attidute can be solved by adding a drop of
40% citric acid per ml of sensitizer just before coating). And I must admit
that I find very very interesting to hear from someone who does gum prints
(using many manipulation techniques) the words: "New Cyanotype over is
complicated" - it's a contradiction; I'd suggest that you make inkjet prints
instead of gums, if you so much dislike "over complicated" processes I mean
;)

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From: TERRYAKING@aol.com [mailto:TERRYAKING@aol.com]
Sent: 17 Temmuz 2006 Pazartesi 12:02
To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
Subject: Gums a la Demachy and Puyo and all sorts of other things

...Mike Ware had already used 'new chrysotype' and 'new cyanotype'. Both of
these appear to achieve nothing special, one tends to discolour after ten
years or so and they are both over complicated...
Received on 07/17/06-06:50:19 AM Z