Re: ref.continuing research

[Virginia Tech]

At 12:19 AM 6/19/97 -0700, Ing. Tomas Stohr wrote:


>-Watermarks on colorpaper are mostly weak, uncomplete or
>nonexisting.Hence,contactprocedures or scanning will probabily not
>provide the best results.

I have not worked with colored papers, but that strikes me as a good point.
I did have trouble getting good contact prints with Dylux paper for some
modern papers that had been treated with various coatings, and also with
papers that had been waterstained, which apparently makes the paper become
more dense as it dries and reduces the contrast between watermarks and the
rest of the paper. So I can imagine that you could have trouble getting
good prints with the Dylux method from colored papers.

/Bob Allison

Robert W. Allison
Dept. of Philosophy & Religion and
Chair, Classical & Medieval Studies
Bates College,
Lewiston, Maine, USA 04240

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