oops!

That should have been Happy New Year to all.

Speeling checker doesn't catch Capped words and the H and Y are next to
each other. Wasn't being a smart Alec.

--Dick

At 11:35 AM 12/31/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>A while back Vaugh and I exchanged some messages regarding length of
>development for carbon. You might recall that our methods contrasted
>significantly in that with my method development was ended at 6 minutes,
>while his called for up to 15 minutes or more. Having done some testing
>and printmaking during the past several weeks with very thick emulsions I
>am now going to suggest that our different experiences result primarily
>from the use of tissues of different thickness. In the past my carbon
>tissue typically consisted of about 100ml of gelatin solution per sheet of
>11X14 tissue. On development, if exposed correctly, I can strip this
>tissue from the support at about two minutes and complete development in 6
>minutes. with the new thicker tissue I have been experimenting with -
>which uses about 200ml per 11X14 sheet - I have to wait for at least three
>minutes to strip the tissue from the support, and development is not
>complete until around 12-15 minutes.
>
>The advantage of the thicker tissue is that your get much greater relief,
>provided of course that you decrease the amount of pigment proportionately
>and transfer the image to a relatively hard surface paper. The advantage
>is with art papers as there is virtually no difference in dimensional
>effect between very thick and very thin tissues.
>
>Wishing everyone a Happy New Year. May there be many great carbon prints
>in your future!!
>
>Sandy King
>
>
>
>
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Received on Mon Dec 31 09:53:10 2001