[pure-silver] Re: how long, when partially wet?

From: "EJ Neilsen" <ej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 10:50:49 -0500
Mark, I think you miss part of my point. There are lots of ways to get a
print ready faster than just letting it sit on the drying screen. There are
pluses and minuses to most of them. I was merely cautioning that if one does
use a hair drier with too much heat, you can alter the surface quality of
the print. 

For me this has not been an issue for some time, but when I lived in Taos,
NM and ran my printing business from there, time was critical for fast turn
around. We would get the Fed Ex Delivery at 10:30 to noon, and would only
have until 2:30 to have it ready to go out the same day. While most orders
were not over night request, just getting some things out in two days
required creative solutions to over come some time restraints. 

In a one off situation or even if it was going to a single event, it may not
be a big deal, but if you are sending out multiple prints to the same
location and some look glossier than others; that could be a problem.

A bigger issue is what type of mounting is being used and what is the RH in
both places? 
  

Eric Neilsen Photography
4101 Commerce Street, Suite 9
Dallas, TX 75226
214-827-8301
http://ericneilsenphotography.com
 
Skype : ejprinter
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pure-silver-
> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sauerwald Mark
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 7:54 AM
> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: how long, when partially wet?
> 
> Janet
> 
> I am almost purely an amateur photographer, so my
> experience and pressures may be different from what
> you have.  For me, I find the process of making the
> image as important, if not more so than the final
> result.  I enjoy hiking through the back country with
> my photo gear, I do not wear a watch, and time
> exposures longer than 1s with my pulse.  I find the
> time in the darkroom to be very theraputic - and
> sometimes am very slow, spending a long time looking
> at a print trying to decide what, if anything I want
> to do with it.  In that respect, I would agree with
> you in your decision not to use a hair dryer, but to
> just wait.  Wait far longer than you think is needed.
> When the process is the goal, there is no need to rush
> anything.
> 
> Mark
> 
> --- Janet Cull <jcull@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I understand.  I really was rushing it, inside my
> > head, and decided
> > to back off and give it a couple good days.  The
> > print was too much
> > work to take a chance doing anything with it before
> > I *knew* it was
> > thoroughly dry.  I dropped the rush I was in.  I
> > never do anything
> > like a blow dryer.  Not that I knew anything was
> > wrong with it, I'm
> > just not in that big a rush.  This time I felt
> > pushed, but decided
> > not to be pushed into a mistake I didn't want to
> > chance needing to fix.
> >
> > Thanks for taking time to post!
> >
> > Janet
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mar 31, 2007, at 10:18 PM, EJ Neilsen wrote:
> >
> > > Janet, I am not trying, although some might
> > disagree, to be a smart
> > > ass here, but after having lived on the West
> > Coast, in New Mexico
> > > and now in Dallas, there is only the "it is dry
> > now."  Drying
> > > prints near the coast that was cool and damp was
> > different than
> > > drying prints in arid New Mexico and still
> > different than hot humid
> > > Dallas. While each has it's own micro climate, the
> > big deal is air
> > > flow and temperature of the air flow.
> > >
> > >
> > > Force drying a print with a heated air stream can
> > get your print
> > > dry faster , but it can also lead to a change in
> > gloss quality on
> > > fiber based glossy paper. Heat pressing your
> > slightly damp print in
> > > a dry mount press, can get your print dry faster
> > as well, but may
> > > impart something to the surface. I don't really
> > like to send prints
> > > out faster than over night just because a don't
> > like to rush. I
> > > find that is when I make more mistakes with
> > spotting as well.
> > >
> > >
> > > Eric
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Eric Neilsen Photography
> > >
> > > 4101 Commerce Street
> > >
> > > Suite 9
> > >
> > > Dallas, TX 75226
> > >
> > > http://e.neilsen.home.att.net
> > >
> > > http://ericneilsenphotography.com
> > >
> > > Skype ejprinter
> > >
> > > From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:pure-silver-
> > > bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Janet Cull
> > > Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 6:50 PM
> > > To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [pure-silver] Re: how long, when
> > partially wet?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mar 31, 2007, at 12:55 PM, EJ Neilsen wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I would recommend that you make a call and delay
> > delivery
> > >
> > > That's what's I decided to do. You said, "till
> > it's dry". Well...
> > > yeah.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> 
> 
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  - From: Sauerwald Mark
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