Re: Contrast in gum bichromate

Virginia Boehm (gini@ix.netcom.com)
Thu, 15 Jun 1995 05:41:05 -0700

>can be a source of flaking (because it has its own gum content) and
>staining (the gum will suspend just so much pigment) if
>those bother you. (I hate it when somebody's nose flakes off!)
>
>I suspect, too that you can get away with denser pigment in tri-color,

>where the coats aren't exact duplicates, than with monochrome, where
>the next coat and all other nexts are likely to go right in the same
>places. Anyway, you do make tri-color sound inviting ......
>
A good point. Unless the area in the print is black (a very tough
color to get in tri-color since the pigments aren't exactly matched to
the primaries) there aren't three layers of pigment in the same place.
If there were, there might be problems.

Gini