Lee
In the last note, I was talking about print tones changing with drying
temperature (not about curl).
As far as curl goes, it is highly influenced by drying speed, which of
course is an interaction of humidity and temperature.
Regards
Ralph W. Lambrecht
http://www.darkroomagic.com
On 2006-04-17 19:49, "Lee Carmichael" <click76112@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ralph,
>
> I think it is the humidity rather than the temp that causes the
> prints to not be as flat. Out in the West where it is a lot drier
> the prints seem to curl much more than here in north Texas where the
> humidity is about 50% or greater.
>
> lee\c
>
>
> At 11:33 AM 4/17/2006, you wrote:
>> It is sometimes mentioned that the drying temperature makes a
difference in
>> print tones. In a test, I compared air-drying, forced-air and
IR-drying and
>> was not able to see a differences in Ilford and Agfa papers.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
>> Ralph W. Lambrecht
>>
>> http://www.darkroomagic.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2006-04-17 12:45, "Edward C. Zimmermann" <edz@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Nearly all my resin papers go through an IR dryer--- the
>> exception are those
>>> that don't fit.
>>>
>>> Some of my fibre papers get hung in my drying bag (DevAppa), some
>> hang back to
>>> back from a clothesline, some get layed out in a Paterson RC
>> drying rack put
>>> onto
>>> its side (with some papers it acts as a kind of drying screen
with minimal
>>> contact), some dry in a warm canvas (ferrotype) dryer... and some
>> in a hot air
>>> rack dryer (designed for resin papers).
>>>
>>> Some papers get quite curly and misbehaved but nothing that a
good pressing
>>> (in a
>>> dry mount press) does not solve. Trick, I think, is not to let
>> things get too
>>> dry
>>> before attention is paid to flattening them..
>>
>>
>>
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