Some of the papers I have used for platinum have very different sides -- so choice of papers would be important if trying to print both sides. I have plenty of reject prints to try double sided printing with! I was thinking of printing on over-size paper then trimming to center the image...I'd have to rethink that if trying to get an image on both sides.
vaughn --- i had at one point thought about printing text onto mylar and contact printing
that sheet onto photo paper, but i soon realized it would be white text on a black page
so i would have to make a second contact ... it seemed like a lot of work! so
i stuck to just images ...
i have used photo paper as signatures / book pages, but it always made me worry that
the emulsion and pages would tear from being bent / turned / creased often ..
not to mention single weight paper worked great for pages, and now
there isn't much, if any, single weight paper being made anymore ...
paul --- i know what you mean about a "fanned" pages.
i have found that if the bound-edge of the page is folded
so each sewn pages is double-thick there is less of a problem with fanning ...
That is why such processes as platinum are nice -- one prints on a good quality watercolor paper, with no emulsion issues. There use to be some very paper-like photopapers (RCArt by Luminos, for example) that are no more.
For words, one could print inkjet onto transparent media, reversing the tonality (black page, white letters) -- but one might have to stock up on black ink! And I think copy shops might be able to take a regular paper copy, and copy it reversed onto a transparent medium.
paper ( or velum/ acetate ) negatives from the copyshop ...
just enough imperfection to make things interesting!
i wonder if you could print on both sides of a salt print, or a cyanotype ?
thanks vaughn
- john
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