Re: My book -- finally!

Hi Richard,

Why do you need to treat yupo? I both used / made tissue on Yupo +
used it as final support - without any special treatment. And I
haven't had any problems. Actually I had some shedding at the borders
(non-image area) but I attribute this to uneven sensitizing in the
borders of the tissue - because I had to tape the tissue since it was
very curly and won't stay flat by just pinning the corners down...

I like Yupo very much because:

- it's a pretty stable support, much durable than paper
- it's easy to use - especially as final support; you don't need to
pre-coat it with gelatine as with watercolor papers or you don't have
to fix it before transferring as with s/g papers
- it's very very cheap compared to artist quality watercolor paper (at
least here in Istanbul)
- it's very white + not too much glossy = better apparent sharpness /
contrast in the finished print

Regards,
Loris.

Quoting Richard Sullivan <richsul@earthlink.net>:

> ...
> We are also going to try my failed waxing solution to treat YUPO. YUPO
> is a bit sensitive to shedding and anything that helps hold the image
> will be good. We are also looking at using YUPO as a temporary support
> by waxing it. We are looking at various ways to improve and speed up
> the process. At some point we may have time to run a test like you
> asked about.
>
> From our experience here YUPO is the favorite support. Canvas is coming
> in second but I think mostly for the novelty effect. Gordon wants to do
> a big one on glass, like 30x40. We got the trays but the sink ain't big
> enough so he's going to build a support outrigger to hold it. We'll see!
> ...
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