Digital BW, The Print

Hey, i cant begin to tell you how you're getting me excited here with this. Well, it's surely enough to get me out of my lurking.... My first post!!!!
First is because i'm a Filipino based here in Paris, France and although i do mainly historical processes (gum, cyano, pt/pd, van dyke etc.) i enlarge negs digitally and output smaller editions by inkjet. This forum has given me tremendous help all this time especially being in a place where almost all the resources are in a language i dont speak. Heck, even english is not that easy for me. 

Finding a suitable paper is a frustration we all share; traditional silver-based, alt/historical processes, digital outputs and for those like me, hybrid worflows. We all have paper pains. For me, there is nothing naive in what you are trying to do. I print multilayer gum on parent
 sized Fabriano Artistico or Lana Aquarelle deckled on four sides and produce inkjet editions on Innova Fibaprint A3 white matt  they're ok but theres always that big 'what if' wish of printing on the same support; deckle, texture and all....ahhh. now if i can only get the colors to match.... (but thats a separate MOTHER of all threads)

BTW, Most of my work are culled from several b/w docu portfolios of my country's marginalised indigenous peoples.  Batad and Banaue has been my favorite base for rest supply and communications everytime i go in the Cordilleras. Your paper making endeavour will surely be a very welcome income generating project (IGP's as the development workers over there call them) for the people. 
Please keep us posted with your adventures.

Ding

p.s. Over here, Sennelier sells gampi paper from the Philippines for restoration purposes. I havent tried them for anything because i prefer grammage upwards of 180 and they only sell them at the very thin 12g. 


--- En date de : Ven 23.4.10, gumkeith <gumkeith@...> a écrit :

De: gumkeith <gumkeith@...>
Objet: [Digital BW] Gampi
À: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Date: Vendredi 23 avril 2010, 4h50







 



  


    
      
      
        Many thanks to all those who contributed messages dealing with this subject. You have informed a naive papermaker.  I found a clear inkAid product that seems to address the question of a proper coating. Is anybody familiar with this?  Is there a cheaper alternative?  ihttp://www. inkaid1.com/ Products/ SemiGloss. html At $46.00 for two quarts, I am trying to quess what this will add to the cost of each sheet.  A quart may cover no more than 25 sheets of 16x20.  

    I live in the mountains of northern Luzon, Philippines each summer http://ling. nthu.edu. tw/faculty/ hcliao/pictures/ Batad%20rice% 20terrace. jpg  Gampi grows wild on marginal land around this village. Local residents harvest the fiber and process it for me.  The Gampi bush is of no use to the Ifugao because the wood is balsa like. It is one of the few natural resources that does not need chemical assistance or cultivation. 

   We will be making paper again this summer from July to November.  Before departing  I need to resolve as many problems as possible and ship essential supplies well in advance.  Should I order the inkAid product?   





    
     

    
    


 



  






      

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