Re: A PVA for printing "gum" : a practical approach

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From: "Katharine Thayer" <kthayer@pacifier.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: A PVA for printing "gum" : a practical approach

> It reminds me of a time when I was having trouble printing on glass,
> and someone here suggested silane as a sub. So I ordered some silane
> and tried it, and it didn't work, and I reported that back here.
> Then someone cheerfully said, well, then you probably got the wrong
> silane--there are about a thousand of them and they all do different
> things. At that point I said, life is too short! I was trying to
> print on glass for an upcoming show, and I just simply didn't have
> time to do trial and error with silanes, never mind the expense, so I
> figured out a different way to print gum on glass. But it would have
> been helpful if someone could have pointed me immediately to the
> "right" silane for the purpose.

Katharine, in case you'd tackle the silane thing again, you might look for
GLYCIDOXYPROPYLTRIMETHOXSILANE (Dow Cornings's Z-6040).

Martin
Received on Fri Mar 31 02:38:13 2006