I forgot to mention that. I use fiberglass screens to dry and a dry mount press to flatten. I use a piece of rag board cut to size to protect from the press' pad in case anything is in there and change out the board from time to time. Eric --- Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eric Nelson" <emanmb@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 9:48 AM > Subject: [pure-silver] Shot of another defective > print > > > > Just in case this can muddy the waters even more, > I > > did another quick shot of another print. > > > http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1036/1083070847_afb94d96de_o.jpg > > > > Eric > > Without re-reading the entire thread I am not > sure if > drying method was mentioned. My appologies if it has > been > and I have missed it. > It is possible for a print to pick up > contamination > during drying especially where blotters or screens > are used. > While modern fiberglass screens are easy to wash the > older > cheese cloth kind can become contaminated and must > be washed > with bleach to remove residual hypo, etc. The aprons > on > rotary or flat electric dryers also notorious for > becoming > contaminated but very few of these machines are used > these > days. The contamination from drying can be quite > irregular > so and blotchy so is a possible cause of the trouble > here. > > --- > Richard Knoppow > Los Angeles, CA, USA > dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > ============================================================================================================= > 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. > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz ============================================================================================================= 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.