Digital BW, The Print

I looked at the D-Roller system to, but it seemed to be a lot of money for something I could cobble together from what I had lying around the house.

And so it proved to be: All you need is a roll of brown wrapping paper and the core of a paper  roll. 

Lie the brown paper on a long table and lie the curled paper down on top of it, convex side of curl facing up. 

Roll the brown paper roll around the roller and start rolling it up along the table, around the core. It will then take up the curled inkjet paper .... not touched by a human hand or the roll core or the table, because you are encasing it in the brown paper roll.

Roll it up and secure the brown paper with sticky tape, once it's rolled. Leave it for a minute or two and unroll it. You may have left a curl in the opposite direction if you've left it too long. 

So that's what I'm going to do in future.

But my other method is that I have a large archival cardboard box about 110cm long for storing paper in. I put the 1m panorama lengths of Entrada in there, put some acid-free tissue on top and on top of that, some 13x19" boxes of paper - this gets it flat pretty fast - overnight should do it.

Richard

At 06:06 p.m. Friday 1/08/2008, you wrote:
>Does anyone use roll paper? If so, how do you flatten it? Is it worth it?
>Thanks.
>alan

Richard Smallfield Photography
http://smallfield.vze.com 

   "Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them."
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