Re: Color Carbon

Sandy,

Have you seen Kauffman's carbro's? If so, do they have relief? His
son is about 4 hours away from me. I've made arrangements with him
to see his father's work, but things never worked out.

Eric.

On Dec 27, 2006, at 2:25 PM, Sandy King wrote:

> Learning to make a balanced tissue set for carbon printing is quite
> a challenge. When I first started to work with carbon I was only
> interested in color and spent three or four years working almost
> exclusively in color. And I have four or five very nice prints to
> show for my efforts!! I did have a big jump start on the tissue
> because Richard Kauffman, who later collaborated in the creation of
> Ultrastable materials, provided me with his own formula for three-
> color tissue. However, the process of balancing separations with
> wet processing was a very formidable task.
>
> If I were to balance another color set it would probably be easier
> to first balance it for carbro, then adjust sensitizer and exposure
> for carbon. But I am so much into monochrome photography now that I
> probably will not do color again. But I do have a nice Devin 5X7
> tri-color camera that only needs a new pellicle and calibration to
> be on line and I am very tempted to resurrect the beast to do some
> historical type color printing.
>
> Sandy King
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