What I meant was the former - I really didn't want to mess with formalin,
and besides, I don't know of any way to get it. Since there was no mention
of using gelatin without formalin hardening in Crawford's The Keepers of
Light, I conjectured that using a starch sizing is preferable to using
unhardened gelatin. So that leaves me using starch sizing with multiple
printing, though it is not recommended.
Regarding the second question, I cannot squarely answer it because I haven't
yet settled on a technique - I've only just begun printing over the last
month or so, and I've completed only a handful of prints. In the few
prints I have attempted, I've sized only once in the beginning, and this
has seemed to work okay, although I may decide to do a second sizing after
the first two soakings with my current print.
A question for those using multiple-printing techniques for color - do you
do 3-color (yellow, magenta, cyan) or 4-color (yellow, magenta, cyan, black)
separations? and do you print in the above order? Also, do you find
yourself doing multiple prints of a single color? If so, which colors?
thanks,
michael