[pure-silver] Re: Strange Drymount Tissue Behavior
- From: DarkroomMagic <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: PureSilverNew <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 01:50:58 +0100
How old is non-sticking dry-mount tissue? Mine (Seal ColorMount) was bought
eight years ago and works just fine.
Regards
Ralph W. Lambrecht
On 12/21/04 12:28 AM, "Ken Hough" <k4sb@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've had the same issue. Except with seal tissue. Mine was old.
> Age really has a lot to do with it. I learned to bend it. Old tissue
> will fracture, fresh or viable will not as much.
> Ken
>
> So I was drymounting photographs today. At first, I did 8x10 FB
> prints. Everything went well. (I use the method outlined in the Seal
> manual, the one that Richard has mentioned a number of times on
> numerous forums.) I then switched to 11x14" prints. When I tried to
> tack the prints on the mount board, they didn't stick. I used exactly
> the same method, (25 seconds with a Seal tacking iron through a piece
> of release paper), and the prints are on the same paper. After
> excessive tacking time (in my opinion), I finally got it to stick,
> and
> I put the 11x14 in the Seal press for 2 minutes at 200F, my usual
> time. One corner of the print didn't mount. The drymount tissue is
> Bienfang ColorMount in both 8x10 and 11x14, in both cases that tissue
> was bought this year. The storage conditions have been identical,
> with
> one box sitting right on top of the other. Any idea what's up?
>
> -Peter De Smidt
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