Another post from a film / analog newbie: while I continue to deal with the challenges of getting correct exposures, I'm wondering:
My dried prints do not lie flat: some have only a few bends/ripples in them, others more so. Any tips for what to do? I've tried laying them flat, or hanging them from a line ... One thing that works somewhat is to place them between sheets of blotter paper, weighed down by bricks (but this has less of an effect when the prints are dry).
Thanks, David
I hate crinkled fibre based prints!
I would just briefly re-wet them and dry them again, but also storage is an issue. I had a load of flat prints in an old paper box held with a rubber band on the out side of the box, that then took on a slight bend in the middle.
Flat prints is an age old problem, if you search the net several offered solutions are to tape the print onto glass, or dry two prints back to back - I haven't tried either, and I think would work IF you have large prints and/or a wide sacrificial border.
Depending upon the number of prints or where I am at the time, I might use the Pinsta drying frame, sometimes between a few books and kitchen paper - but the print can pick up fibres from the paper, and it needs to be changed out a lot to so it doesn't stick, and I wouldn't use any great weight to do it. More recently I used a 1970's solution to solve this age old problem, and bought an old print dryer off eBay - and have flat 10x8 fibre prints from wet in less than 6 minutes.