your campaign
2014-11-19 by Matti Koskinen
hi David, Much of luck to your campaign. I really would like to contribute (a small amount), I'm broke as you describe your situation. I've visited Arequipa 1987 with my wife, who is peruvian, but we're living here in Finland. And what a coincidence, my ImagON-HD plate is now hardening under UV-light. I also dreamed of a plate burner, but now have 300W Osram Ultra-Vitalux lamp. The exposure, depending of how the positive is done, but my so far best positives I've got, are from laser printer, and they have 53sec exposing time. I almost took an axe and broke my HP Z2100, it gives nice print on transparency, but I've tried several methods of stochastic screen, but the Moire or some other banding is driving me nuts. I made an aquatint screen, simply spraying paint on a laser transparency from quite far, but this iteration between exposing the aquatint and positive, isn't the simplest task. That have to wait for better times. grafiskexperimentarium.dk (?) has quite a lot of diy things. I made my on vacuum frame as the page instructs, of course using what I have, and an exposing cabinet, it was quite horrible to be in the same room, while the plate was hardening, also the 3 minutes heating of the lamp before exposing gave too much UV, I really started to suffer from eyes getting sore. So I'll contribute, but rather than a carbon&color print, I'd like to have the tiniest photogravure (mailing a big one here costs rather too much). best of luck -m