printon before ciba

do you expend, or do you expand

… and Printon took an hour to soup .. it also had latency effect; the color balance changed over time between exposure and processing. A print that was exposed and processed beginning within 15 minutes of the exposure time looked one color, whereas, one which took 45 minutes before processing looked a different way. 15 minutes to 45 minutes varied towards the warm colors showing up more in a flashed border, making it possible to have a neutral print but warm toned borders; portrait shops loved it. Ansco filters were too broad stepped for fine rendering so I used them along with exposure thru wratten filters to achieve better color clarity. 

Along with these operations I could overprint using dye transfer matrices. This knowledge expanded to other print materials. I never knew of anyone else doing these things even though I told Kodak reps along with teaching methods to employees, and later, art students.

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noted: “Like many, I watched with sorrow in February as the Washington Post slashed its staff, including its classical music critic, Michael Andor Brodeur. That blow came a little less than a year after the New York Times shook up its culture desk and reassigned its classical music critic, Zachary Woolfe, to serve as the obituaries editor. (The paper is now actively searching for a new classical music critic.)” from: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2026-09-25/essential-arts-template?