> > From: "John Celio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/04/11 Fri AM 06:42:53 GMT > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Cleaning prints? > > I've got some prints that need to be cleaned so I can scan them (they're > photos to which I've lost the negatives, that I want to put in my new > gallery). > > Some of them are minilab glossy prints, some are good old Kodak black & > white 8x10s (RC) I made in the college darkroom. > > What are some good ways to clean prints like these? The glossy ones are the > worst, some of them even being stuck together still. Any tips would be much > appreciated.
If they were mine, I would soak them in a tray of distilled water and then use a squeeze bottle of the same to rinse off whatever would move in that way. Do further cleanup on the digital copies. Use the same technique to separate the stuck prints. Leave tham in the tray for at least a couple of hours to soften everything, then gently tease them apart. Any sign of pulling the emulsion off, leave them to soak some more. This will be a delicate operation, with limited success. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
