Digital BW, The Print

On 23 Sep 2004 at 7:56, Paul Roark wrote:

> Hardware or paint stores should have appropriate goggles and respirators for
> aerosol sprays.  There are apparently different respirators for different
> types of problems.  And, of course, the area should be well vented.
> 
> (I personally just use an open, cross-ventilated garage, with the prints
> hanging on a clothes line, weighted at the bottom to hold them still.  I
> just don’t breathe while spraying and drying with a hair drier between
> sprays.)
> 

Well ventilated can mean different things, based on where you are, and what time 
of year it is, for example in most parts of Canada, a well ventilated garage in 
January is running between -5C and -40C  and your spray is likely to freeze before 
drying.  Most people prefer to shoot in the summer, and spend the winter preparing 
their prints, so a non-toxic or low toxicity spray works better here.  With fume rooms 
it was perfect, you could spend the winter in a nice cozy darkroom......  A detached 
garage, with one of those oil or propane fired heaters might work, but not with an 
attached (part of the house) garage......

W