[pure-silver] Re: prints stuck together in drymount press
- From: "EJ Neilsen" <ej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 10:37:36 -0500
Shannon, While I have at some point in my darkroom days had a print that I
tried to heat dry too soon, I don't have experience with three at once. I
avoid flattening more that one print at a time unless the edges will be
trimmed off. Even the slightest slip of registration of the stack can cause
an indentation that may never come out.
Release tissue is important and careful use of heat and pressure is a must.
For simple flattening, less heat and less pressure work fine. I find that
just closing the lid/top without pushing it all the way down works great for
first pressing. You can also burp your press so that the heavy moist air is
released.
While they may have dried for three days, did you do more printing while
they were on the rack? Or were they in a loose stack? Humidity will get back
into the paper base so when mounting or when flattening prints, a light even
heat prior to the final step has helped me avoid lost prints from the
finishing process.
Happy printing!
Eric
Eric Neilsen Photography
4101 Commerce Street
Suite 9
Dallas, TX 75226
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shannon Stoney" <sstoney@xxxxxxx>
> To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 5:28 PM
> Subject: [pure-silver] prints stuck together in drymount
> press
>
>
> > Hi, I tried to flatten three prints at once in my drymount
> > press
> > today, by stacking them on top of each other. This usually
> > works, but
> > this time they stuck together. I suppose they were too
> > damp or
> > something, even thoough they had dried for three days.
> >
> > Two of them got fibers stuck in the emulsion, from the
> > print that was
> > stacked on top. I re-washed them and they are drying now.
> > Will this
> > solve the problem?
> >
> > --shannon
>
> Use release tissue when you dry and flatten prints in a
> dry mount press. The idea is that the release tissue keeps
> the emulsion from drying out too much while drying the
> support. This is what removes the curling. Also, the release
> tissue prevents the emulsion side from sticking to anything.
> I generally flatten prints one at a time but doing more
> than one will probably work. I use thick "kraft" paper as
> the absorptive layer against the support. The kraft paper
> should be dried out in the press just before using it. Then
> make a sandwich of kraft paper, the print, a layer of
> release tissue and more kraft paper as a cushion. For more
> than one print I would stack the assemblys, i.e., kraft
> paper, then the first print, then release tissue, then a
> couple of more layers of kraft paper, then the second print,
> then a sheet of release tissue, etc. The entire thing should
> be removed from the press after heating and placed under a
> flat weight until cool. The best weight is a sheet of heavy
> Aluminum but I've used thick plywood with success. Its just
> that Aluminum absorbs heat well and cools faster.
>
> ---
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles, CA, USA
> dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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