Q: Fiber Paper / Glass Sheets for Drying

[Jon Shiu]

There used to be blotter books and blotter rolls for drying prints.

Jon

[Andre Noble]

The first thing I do once I remove print from wash is to "wring out" water from the fiber print by rolling a clear acrylic brayer roller over the print as it sits on a flat glass or marble surface (I do so with a lot of pressure). Since the brayer is hard plastic and continually rotates as you push it across the paper - the action not only lightly squeggees water from the surface - avoiding the high friction across the emulsion of a typical rubber squeegee, but it also wrings water out of the paper - but the high pressure of the perfectly flat brayer roller further removes a good portion and any last vestiges of water solublized contaminents from the prints.