According to New York Central, all Whatman's save the Cold Press 140# are discontinued by the mill. Have you ever seen the CP and if so how rough is it?
Neal
Roger, who is your UK source?
The Crane Paper Company of Dalton, Massachusetts,(the firm that owned the Weston mill)
discontinued the manufacture of paper at the Byron Weston Paper Company mill in Dalton,
Massachusetts in ealry 2008. The only thing that the mill manufactures today is pulp. Matter of fact,
Crane brand papers themselves, for the most part, are manufactured by other paper mills.
Crane sold the Weston brand, customer list and paper formulas to the Southworth Paper
Company of Turners Falls, Massachusetts. The Weston products sales representative (who was with the Weston mill) is a long time business acquaintance of mine, and we collaborated to bring the paper back to
the alt. market.
As this is a rather intense and very costly undertaking, I have been appointed the sole worldwide
distributor of the reincarnated Weston Diploma Parchment, which has an appendage added to
its name--Plat-Pal.
The WDP Plat-Pal is made to the same specifications as the original paper and does in fact
respond to chemistry very nicely.
When I introduced the original Weston Diploma Parchment to the alt. community, I did so
only after considerable scrutiny by the man (John Marcy) who originally asked me to look
for a PT/PD sheet that he and 21ST Editions could use for their projects. At the time, an awful
lot of people had fallen away from the alternative processes because there hadn't been any new
papers introduced to the community in a very long time. It's ironic that Weston Diploma had
been manufactured for some 50+ years and no one ever tested the paper for PT/PD.
Over the last several months we have had several paper trials at Southworth which John Marcy tested at his
Northampton Photographics studio, with success finally achieved earlier this fall. John pronounced the
paper acceptable for PT/PD and here we are.
Hi Dana,
I've received a few emails from John Zokowski of Butler-Dearden Paper wh has been trying to assure me that Weston Diploma Parchment is as good as ever, or better. Below is his last email to me. I'd love a second opinion before committing to a purchase, especially as the Aussie dollar has sunk.
"acceptable for PT/PD" doesn't sound great.
Regards,
Jon
Just a quick follow up. I finally got around to testing the new Stonehenge. It cleared fine, but it was A LOT slower than Platine. I made an exposure with identical coating/time that worked for Platine in the same session, and the Stonehenge print was significantly lighter and the blacks were grainy. I didn't have time to do further testing, which I will, but the initial test led me think that the new Stonehenge wasn't behaving the same as the old stock.
I am liking the Platine and will probably buy some more.
Neal
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