Re: Pellet process

Bill Thoms (bthoms@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA)
Tue, 28 Nov 1995 19:39:03 -0500

Regarding the Pellet Process the responce I received was:

>I did not encourage him because it seemed to offer no advantage (if you
>want a picture in white on blue ground, print your positive, if you don't
>have a positive make one make in about 3 minutes with 30 cents worth of
>lith film) and a serious disadvantage -- it uses MUCH more chemistry than
>cyanotype, the solutions being much more concentrated, and, as I recall,
>it has at least one extra step, a final "development" in, was it potassium
>ferricyanide? Feh!
>
>Judy

I am surprised by this responce to the Pellet Process question. How
discouraging. I was curious about the process and wanted to try it. I
welcome the "happy accident". No experiments, no accidents bites. Although
my experimentation did not yield the expected result, I did come away with a
print that is quite extraordinary- a deep powder blue with an eggshell
finish. I hope I can repeat it!

Bill