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> Steven Woody <narkewoody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> for fiberglass print drying rack, should one put the prints on it with
>> emusion side down or up? thanks.
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>Some people will say that depends on the paper type; fiber or RC.
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>I use an RC dryer and before that a hair dryer. So I only use the
>screens for Fiber. I also know people that dry fiber face down. People I
>respect their work: However I have always used face up, I squeegee the
>prints and they are dry but morning, without water spots and screen
>marks which if you fail to remove enough water may appear on the paper.
I have always dried fiber face-down on screens. I agree that if you
squeegee or chamois all the water off first, it doesn't really matter
which side up you do it.
When I was in school we often had to produce large numbers of good
quality prints very fast. At peak periods we would prevail upon the
other students mixing the fixer in the large group darkrooms to omit
the hardener so we could cut wash times a bit if we were toning. It
wasn't uncommon in this environment to see prints damaged in most ways
you can imagine, for example by being slid into the rack of drying
screens face-down too vigorously, resulting in scuffing of the emulsion
surface, or by being squeegeed with a squeegee with some grit or crud
on it, resulting in discrete surface scratches.
Either way you can screw up but I've always found it easier to work with
less stuff to keep clean, so I do it the way I don't have to squeegee
the emulsion side of the paper -- no squeegee to wipe down for dirt
first. If I dry face-up without squeegeeing I get water spots that do
not always come out easily when I flatten the paper in my dry mount
press, so face-down it is.
--
Thor Lancelot Simon
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"The inconsistency is startling, though admittedly, if consistency is to
be abandoned or transcended, there is no problem." - Noam Chomsky
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