Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Anne-Temp_Brackett@READERSDIGEST.COM wrote: > > I am currently printing in black and white using RC paper. I am fully > committed to photography, as all you LUGNUTS are and want to take the next > step into printing on Fiber. I use the JOBO Processor and understand that I > can print Fiber paper in drums. I request direction in the following: > Do I need an archival wash? > Does anyone use a densitometer? If so, which one? > How do you dry the paper (screens or dryer)? > Any other suggestions? > Thank you. > > Anne The use of a densitometer will not help you make the transition to fiber, it is a whole other ball of wax which one out of every ten thousand fiber printers involve themselves in (I made that figure up out of thin air!) Start printing first. I made a stack of dryer screens out of one by one's, a miter saw, above average staple gun and plastic screen. I now use them for my RC contact sheets too instead of clothespins like I had done since RC's inception. If you say the drums can do fiber that is news to me I am not a drum person. When you put a sheet of fiber paper into a tray of developer it slowly gets softer and softer (remember folks?!). That is why I wonder about the drums which would I thought relay on stiffer paper. Mark Rabiner Fiber dries down darker than RC but that Gap seems to be narrowing.