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Ferrotyping FB prints
This subject was raised quite recently but may have been part of another thread which covered ferrotyping as well but I cannot remember the thread nor who made the post on ferrotyoping
So in case this thread should ideally be a response to that thread, would the person and or mod feel free to move it The post I wish to make was simply a link to a very recent Naked Photographer video on this subject which I felt was interesting Just bear in mind that the cleaning materials and terminology are U.S. based. However plexiglass is as far as I know the same as "perspex" in the U.K. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5NMY4r2Obc I hope it is useful Mike |
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Thanks for the info, Terry. If any of the interested participants in those threads remain interested then Greg Davis' video looks almost ridiculously simple by comparison and what's more most of us here on FADU live in a climate that favours Greg's method because the humidity we have is higher
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Interesting. And he really is naked in the darkroom! I remember putting a gloss on prints in the late 60's using a metal plate in a heated flatbed print drier as he describes, because a higher gloss was supposed to be better if prints were then to be used for images in a newspaper. I did not know that this was ferrotyping until this post! The gloss I got was a bit uneven, probably because I did not clean the plate well enough. I also used a drum drier as he described when at university but generally not face against the drum to get the gloss: there was, as I recall, a danger of it sticking.
However, I have since come to prefer the matt/stipple type surface: I generally avoid the glossy RC papers as I find they are too shiny for my prints. But that is a personal choice - PTS from my inadequate 'ferrotyping' in a previous life?? Thanks for posting. Mike Last edited by MikeHeller; 4th March 2021 at 09:29 AM. |
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The drying drum wasn't clean enough for the prints to come off without sticking - or at least some of them sticking. So, I guess like Mike, I used to dry my prints against the canvas cloth and achieve a sort of stipple effect on my prints - which to be honest looked really good. I saw one of these drying machines sell in UK EBay for about £800 - which gladdened my heart to think there are still people beavering away with kit like this. Goodness knows how you would move such a thing. Even with the water drained out of it, the thing would weigh and awful lot and would need to be mounted on a solid (concrete) floor. Martin |
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Oops! Thanks Terry We live and learn. Cheers.
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Well, I've watched the video mentioned in the first post and it was in the usual easy going and helpful format.
It was interesting to see that a bit of (fresh and new) perspex gives the best result, but seeing the results, I may be like the guy in the video, and not particularly like the very high gloss result. As he says, RC glossy papers give the same result in a much easier way - and even more so if you heat dry them with a purpose made drier or even a hair drier. If you have one of the heated glazing driers, DON'T try out RC prints on it though, or you could end up saying bye, bye to it all. Interestingly I was given one of the heated driers with a shiny glazing plate and I have it on my list of things to do, to cut and sew a new canvas cover for it (as mentioned in a previous post). I'll give the real shiny look a go, but based on what is said in the video along with my past experience in the 1970's, it may well be just used to dry prints a bit flatter and when I'm in a hurry, with them facing up to the new canvas. Terry S |
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And a new cover has been made! :)
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It took me about an hour overall, with a few hiccups on the sewing front. But I'm chuffed how much better it looks and I will definitely be giving it a thorough test after the next printing session. Terry S |
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