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Re: [OM] Peter Lik again

Subject: Re: [OM] Peter Lik again
From: John Hermanson <omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:27:05 -0500
A heated dryer with ferrotyping surface were dogs to maintain.  The 
surface had to be cleaned constantly or every surface defect and piece 
of dirt would leave it's image on the glossy surface of the print. 
IIRC, this involved polishing the chrome with Bon Ami soap.

40 years ago, my dad gave me (2) 11x14  chromed metal sheets to do this 
at home.  Ferrotyping by itself turned into an art form.  Squeegee the 
wet F surface print onto the face of the metal sheet (after a final 
quick soak in photo flo) and wait for it to dry and pop off.  That got 
old pretty fast.  If you wanted a glossy print, this was the only way to 
do it back then, before the introduction of off-white-base RC papers 
with built in gloss.
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Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Never heard of a "glazing heater".  How is it different from a regular 
> heated print dryer with polished chrome plates?  It's been too long but 
> I seem to recall that was used for glossy prints.  Not sure about matte.
> 
> Chuck Norcutt
> 
> Ken Norton wrote:
>> I use the metallic paper for two prints now.  One of them is the "John
>> Hancock Building" picture.  It is uncanny how realistic and 3D the picture
>> is.  But forget putting people pictures on the material--it's gut-wrench.
>> For my B&W, I'm going to actually go back to using the glazing heater on
>> some of my art prints.  The look is so "different" today, but I love the
>> Dmax and the richness where it looks like you can reach into the print.
>>
>> AG
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