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Drying FB prints
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Hi all,
Can you please advise what is the best way drying your FB prints, I don’t have spacial drying unit or press.
I’m going through little problem at the moment as I was trying to dray my FB glossy prints face down on the glass and now they are half stuck on it and I am not sure if I will be able to take them off with ruining the emulsion. :?
Thanks.I got some heavy duty blotting paper from an art supplies shop and I dry then face down on sheets of that. I have heard of other people simply using newspaper. I then flatten them under a pile of books (again with the blotting paper on either side of the print).
It’s important that the FB paper is completely washed of chemicals.
I use a drying press with temp control but find unless all chemicals are removed during washing, paper will stick to the cloth.
Would suggest you put the print under running water until fully soaked,this should remove the paper from the glass without any damage.
Best of luck with it,
Noel
Get some metal hangers and attach two prints back to back with pegs to the bottom rung of the hanger , use at least 3 pegs. Hang them up somewhere to dry and then attach some smaller pegs to the bottom of the prints to stop them curling up. Depending on paper they should dry quite flat.
Trying to dry in the old fashioned way on glass will not work as there in no hardener in modern rapid fixers. Soaking them in water for a few hours might get them off the glass. Put some wetting agent in the water if you have some. Even if you do get them off they are likely to be marked.
Eddie wrote:
Get some metal hangers and attach two prints back to back with pegs to the bottom rung of the hanger , use at least 3 pegs. Hang them up somewhere to dry and then attach some smaller pegs to the bottom of the prints to stop them curling up. Depending on paper they should dry quite flat.
Trying to dry in the old fashioned way on glass will not work as there in no hardener in modern rapid fixers. Soaking them in water for a few hours might get them off the glass. Put some wetting agent in the water if you have some. Even if you do get them off they are likely to be marked.
Thank you all. I don’t have troubles drying my prints and keeping them flat, but my question here was more about glossy paper, how do you dry them and make them shine like a mirror? The parts of those photos that didn’t get stuck on the glass looks super glossy . I always wash my FB prints well so I don’t think that was the reason why they got stuck.
Irmantas wrote:
how do you dry them and make them shine like a mirror?.
After drying them fully boil a kettle of water, as the water is boiled and the steam is shooting out of the kettle, try to let the steam hit the surface of the print moving it around to give the print 5 seconds of steam all over, this is supposed to make the print a little more glossy. Something to do with tightening the fibers in the print or something…. im told this works have not tried it myself….
Add some hardener ALUM to the fixer and follow your your glass process as before. You can buy it on line from the link below but I am sure you can get it from the UK from also maybe try Silverprint . Another product that can help is glazing fluid which will help in the process. This is the only way you will get a hard bright gloss.
http://www.adorama.com/CHSH.html
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