The slower the drying, the flatter the print. Why are you washing for 2 hours? One can over-wash and do more harm than good. I suggest the use of HCA and limit washing to 30 minutes. Regards Ralph W. Lambrecht On 12/5/04 6:06 PM, "jeffrey" <puresilver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is the curling at the edges of fiber-based paper simply a > characteristic of fiber-based paper, or is it exacerbated by certain > processing techniques? > > ie is washing the print more than, say, two hours, going to cause > the edges to curl and ripple far more than if the print were only > washed one hour? > > Or is most of the curling strictly the result of how it is dried? Can > I assume that most of you dry fiber prints using something akin to > blotter paper, with a weight on top? > > (I have stayed away from fiber-based printing for some years, partly > because I seemed to have to go thru a lot of trouble to get the > prints flat.) > > ============================================================================== > =============================== > To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your > account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) > and unsubscribe from there. ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.