For a time, I worked for a commercial photographer that had his own lab. We
had a big Pako rotary drum drier, and this was in the very early days of RC
paper, so every B&W print was dried glossy.
We washed our prints for a good long time, and then soaked them in Pakosol,
which was said to help keep prints flat, it sometimes worked. We carefully
put them on the drier, and off they came. Sometimes the gloss was not
perfect, so back in the Pakosol and dry again.
We just used a soft cloth on the drum, and it was perfect. Drums are easy to
scratch, though, so used drums must be carefully inspected before purchase.
Bon Ami was the cleaner of choice. Don't know if it's still made.
A ferrotyped Fiber print is quite different from a gloss RC print.
Bill Pearce
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From: "John Hermanson" <omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Peter Lik again
>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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