On Mar 5, 9:19 pm, Richard Knoppow <dickb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mar 4, 6:01 pm, Steven Woody <narkewo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > for fiberglass print drying rack, should one put the prints on it with
> > emusion side down or up? thanks.
>
> The traditional way is to dry fiber prints emulsion side down.
> There is a rational to this. The idea is that curling of prints is
> mostly due to the emulsion shrinking more than the sup****t. This
> shrinking is minimized by slowing down the drying. That happens when
> the emulsion is against the screen which limits the contact with the
> air. Old style screens used cheesecloth which held some water making
> the emulsion side dry even more slowly.
> Since the sup****t side of RC paper is dimensionally stable this
> drying scheme is not needed although screens may still be convenient
> for drying. RC is usually dried emulsion side up.
> The differential drying gotten with a screen is also the reason
> blotter books and rolls have a non-permeable sheet, waxed paper in the
> very old ones, interleaved with the blotters. The idea is to put the
> emulsion against the sheet so that the drying takes place mostly from
> the sup****t side minimizing curling.
>
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles, CA, USA
> dickb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
for the information. It's good!
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