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I found it very useful to write notes on state proofs and test prints. While working on a printing plate, and while inking/printing a plate, notes jotted down on earlier state proofs and test prints helped me to remember what went wrong or how I achieved certain results... and looking over them several years later I don't have to wonder quite so much about why something turned out the way that it did. So, the notes scrawled across the bottom of this print are a the best reminder I have of why the print looks the way that it does. As mentioned earlier, this print was done with three passes through the press - one for each of the three printing plates that make up the finished image. The first pass is on the right, the lady with the dog; the second pass was the section with the middle figure; with the number 2 written in the margin under that section; and the third section was on the left, with the number 3 under it. The problem with this print was that I did not let the ink on the print dry enough between each pass through the press. The first pass through went fine, though it seems that I did not leave quite enough ink on the plate when inking it... because I did not let the ink dry before running it through the press again, during the second pass wet ink on the print from the first pass was transferred to my newsprint backing paper - and this happened again with the first two sections when I ran the print through again for printing the third plate. With each pass the wet ink from previous passes was not only transferred from the paper I was printing on to the backing papers, but ink on those sections of the print was also squashed down and blurred.
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