Digital BW, The Print

Tyler Boley wrote:

> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, hogarth@s... wrote:
> ...
> > I've found you can eliminate most of the dry time by drying the print
> > with a hand-held hair dryer...
>
> Bruce, have you measured those against tests a few days old? Perhaps
> I'm being too, well, you know
>
> Tyler

Not in the way you mean - I'm not yet making my own profiles. But I have 
taken prints directly off the printer, dried them with the dryer 
(smelling the glycols and glycerines, seeing the Dmax go up (Cone 
claimed up to a full stop darker at the black end if you hand dried 
PiezoTones)), slapped them into frames and put them in the sun - no 
outgassing.

I've also printed a test print and pinned it to my proofing wall. Same 
print every day - 24 hour delta. It took about seven days for the prints 
to stabilize when I ran the test (18 months ago maybe?). On the eighth 
day I printed the test print again, but this time I dried it with the 
hair dryer and walked it up and down the wall -  it matched with the 
oldest "air dried" print tone for tone.

Not a densitometer test, I know. Not good enough for profile making, I 
know. That's why I added that "maybe" to my suggestion ;-)
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Bruce Watson