From: Darryl Baird (dbaird@umflint.edu)
Date: 04/09/03-12:41:46 PM Z
Ahem, that's welterweight, then middleweight. [In a previous
incarnation I was a light-welterweight (136 lbs.)]
DB
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On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 02:29 PM, Clay wrote:
> Yeah, after posting that, I looked on the Daniel Smith web page, and the
> 280gsm stuff is called 'Rives BFK Heavyweight', while the 250 and 270gsm
> stuff is called just 'Rives BFK' . Middleweight and Welterweight maybe?
> It
> all seems to work, although my self-esteem might be higher if I move up
> to
> the 280gsm on the next order.
>
> Clay
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kerik" <Kerik@kerik.com>
> To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 1:19 PM
> Subject: Re: Paper for Gum Printing
>
>
>> Clay,
>>
>> For even more distractive technology...
>>
>> It's more complicated than that. BFK actually comes in 3 weights 250,
>> 270
>> and 280 and seems to depend on the color and the sheet size. I've been
>> working from the same large batch of 22x30 white BFK from over a year
>> ago
>> and I think it's 280 gsm.
>>
>> Kerik
>>
>>
>>> The multiple instantaneous replies from Kerik and myself in regards to
>>> the weight of BFK made me wonder about the seemingly minute
>>> differences
>>> in
>>> weight between two of the papers named BFK, (as well as the odds that
>>> we
>>> would both be temporarily bored at work and fall victim to
>>> 'distractive
>>> technology' at the same precise moment).
>>>
>>> Daniel Smith lists a 250 gsm AND a 270gsm . Seems like a very small
>>> difference to me. I have only used the 270 gsm stuff, and wondered if
>>> anyone had a real world comparison against the 250gsm?
>>>
>>> Clay
>>
>
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