[pure-silver] Re: maybe the microwave? Drying paper in Microwave.....

I only dry test prints in the microwave. They do get all bent as described. After drying and inspection, i put them back in the water where the rest of the prints are waiting. They unbend in the water. After washing, I dry them with the other prints as per usual, on screens. They dry flat and then I flatten them further in the dry mount press. They look ok, and I sometimes make postcards out of them, but I wouldn't sell them or use them in a show. 

--shannon


On Mar 28, 2009, at 4:44 PM, Jean-David Beyer wrote:


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Bogdan Karasek wrote:
| hello,
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| Since a microwave was mentioned in the thread, I thought I might seek
| some information.    I tried drying some 8x10 fiber prints in a spare
| microwave oven. It's too large for our kitchen counter, so it's down in | the basement next to my darkroom. The results of the drying was all of | prints were warped, tried weighing them under under several books for a 
|  few days, still the warped look.
|
| Has anybody succeeded in drying prints in a microwave that came out flat 
|  or am I chasing the rainbow????
|
Ansel Adams did that, but not for prints he wanted to deliver to customers, just for test prints to see, more quickly, the effects of dry-down. He did not feel certain that the prints would be as archival as he wanted after he microwaved them. Just test prints. For that, I guess the warping (he did not report that) would not matter for test prints. Also, I do not believe he did 
much printing on warm tone paper.

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