oilprint - anyone?

[holmburgers]

I tried to ask a question about oil prints once and people thought I was nuts... Definititely an under-appreciated method, and little known. Heck, any carbon printer could give it a go rather easily.

Do you de-fat your prints?

 

[gandolfi]

Do you de-fat your prints?

question for me?

In that case, I don't know what you mean by de-fat....

 

[holmburgers]

Yes. Kind of an odd question (partly my reason for asking), but I once read about a "de-fatting" procedure, using turpentine perhaps to clear the oil/fat from the litho ink.

 

[Jerevan]

De-greasing, I know Emil Mayer speaks of it in his book. Never tried it, but it leaves only the pigment in the gelatin. Makes for a tougher surface as far as I remember Emils' words.

The Bromoil Reading Room has a lot of interesting stuff, even for oilprints, at http://www.bromoil.info

 

[holmburgers]

Wow, a lot of great stuff indeed.

http://www.bromoil.info/reading room.html

 

[Jerevan]

Yep, enough for some good bedtime reading and a wish for an extra life to stuff all the projects in...

 

[vpwphoto]

@gandofi.
Is that a processed negative... I assume it is re-printable as long as you are carful?
thanks

 

[gandolfi]

@gandofi.
Is that a processed negative... I assume it is re-printable as long as you are carful?
thanks

yes - the negative is a normal 10x8.

It doesn't get destroyed by this technique.

 

[yashasvi bhuta]

http://in.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/oilprinting/conversations/messages
kinldy join the group and help us gather all the information required for revival of the process and trouble shoot the problems

 

[Klainmeister]

On that note, not sure if anyone follows what we've been up to, but we're pretty much there with the Rawlings Oil print. There's some articles on our blog about the process and torubleshooting: http://www.bostick-sullivan.com/blog/

 

[gandolfi]

thanks for that link

After posting the original question I have noticed a lot of very accompliced oil printers...
Good to see and hear Wet-plate isn't the only technique around worth working with...

 

[Klainmeister]

We're hoping that we can do small runs of gelatin paper so that you could use it for a myriad of different processes, but mainly oil. Just add sensitizers, expose, soak and ink!

 

[gandolfi]

We're hoping that we can do small runs of gelatin paper so that you could use it for a myriad of different processes, but mainly oil. Just add sensitizers, expose, soak and ink!

Great - "Problem" here is not the paper and gelatin - it's the sensitizer (Dichromate requires a police permit...)

 

[Klainmeister]

Great - "Problem" here is not the paper and gelatin - it's the sensitizer (Dichromate requires a police permit...)

Hmm, yes, that's a little bit more difficult to get around. But hey, if you need some, I could pre-sensitize it and ship it in a PVC tube. Funny, we have some carbon tissue that was sensitized sitting in the freezer in tubes and it works fine...2 years later.