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- From: briang@atlastele.com (Brian Godfrey)
- Subject: Re: Swelling of wet paper
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.222337.19380@atlastele.com>
- Organization: Atlas Telecom Inc.
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:23:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.002911.18624@atlastele.com> briang@atlastele.com (Brian Godfrey) writes:
- [Hey! That's me!]
- > It seems to me that if one were interested in maximizing sharpness of the
- > final print, one would print on wet, swelled up paper. I might try that,
- > just for kicks, and see what happens. I presume I will see an increase
- > in contrast as well as sharpness. Blacker blacks, etc. (Like when you
- > inflate a balloon and write on it, then deflate it. The writing gets
- > real contrasty and black.) I have a wonderful negative which needs a
- > real hard paper to print well. I think I might try it with this method.
-
- > Has anyone tried anything like this and can save me some work if it's a
- > stupid idea? :-)
-
- Well I thought about it some more and decided it was a waste of time. If
- the paper is swelled over-size, then I have to enlarge the image more to
- get it on the paper, which enlarges any grain and "unsharpness" in the
- image. Then when the paper dries and shrinks to normal size, the image
- shrinks to normal size, and the imperfections shrink to normal size. So
- nothing is gained. If it were really so easy to increase sharpness, it
- would already be routine in most darkrooms. :-)
-
- --
- --Brian M. Godfrey
- atlastele.com
-