ENTIRELY NEW PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTING PROCESS: The Ultimatype Supreme -- Continuous Tone Gold-Platinum

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Chemicals for this Process, the Ultimatype Supreme
Potassium Platinum Chloride (tetrachloroplatinate) (10%)
Chloroauric Acid (gold chloride). (10%)
40% ammonium ferric oxalate, 10 ml
Vitamin C (ascorbic acid, sodium ascorabate, etc) 1% solution (0.1 gram in 10 ml H2O)
Vinegar (5% acetic acid)
Citric acid
1. Dissolve the metal salts in distilled water. You can but do not have to dissolve a gram of platinum in 10ml water to make 10% -- you may want to prepare it at full 20% strength for pure platinum printing; if so, you can safely dilute it as I do in the video. That is count out two drops, say, of 20% pt, and then add 2 drops of distilled water to it and mix. You then have 4 drops of 10% pt. Same for gold -- I usually prepare 12% gold for chrysotype supremes, but prepare 10% for mixing gold with pt/ir/pd etc. I like to be able to calculate clearly ratios when mixing two or metals and if everything is10% that's a lot easier...
2. Dissolve 4 grams ammonium ferric oxalate (afo) in 10 ml distilled water. Add 7 drops 1% vitamin C solution to a small capped bottle containing the afo solution. Recap that bottle and shake it vigorously for 20 seconds or so.
3. Mix the two metal salts and the ammonium ferric ferrous oxalate. For this video, keep the gold ratio higher than the platinum. for an 8x10, 7 to 10 drops of gold is best.
4. Swirl the mixture vigorously. Then pour it onto the paper and brush quickly and smoothly. The gold and platinum are fighting, the platinum trying to throw out the gold. If you pour it all out at once and hesitant even one second, there is high risk of a dark spot forming on the paper, so brush like you own the process.
5. Dry it all fully in the dark and then print it out.

Gold and platinum is a beautiful synergy: the gentle tonal gradations of platinum combined with the micro contrast yields a unique 3D plasticity. The first bath, an acid bath, determines the color cast of the print. The print is by default usually slate-blue. A stout initial bath of nitric acid (several % solution strength) yields a print leaning toward salmon or beige; an initial bath in vinegar (3% to 5% acetic acid) as in this video results in a neutral image with a slight rose cast.

The Ultimatype Supreme was the second process I invented. While waiting for the patent application for the Texas Chrysotype (now Chrysotype Supreme) to be acknowledged by the US Patent Office, I thought to wonder whether it was possible to print gold and platinum together. I knew that some printers add a drop or two of gold to a platinum print solution to get purples and reds swirling in otherwise aesthetically deficient prints. That works for them because in the presence of platinum gold precipitates out of solution. Oil and water. The paper for this print was Legion Revere Platinum.

An Ultimatype Supreme is possible because the ferrous iron in the solution upholds the gold and the platinum; they do not cast out one the other like warring angels from Heaven, but persist and wait for the blessing of UV light and their release into beauty. It is in that sense like desire, and to quote myself from one of my old poems, "You cannot be transformed without desire." Sounds a little like Sappho meets Ovid...

The ratio of platinum to gold can be anything. It's just if it's to be 50% or more platinum, observe my Platinum Supreme formula (with the platinum solution prepared 3 weeks in advance of printing, but mixed without the glycerin); if 50% or more gold observe my Chrysotype Supreme formula (but with 6 or 7 drops of % C added to the 10ml of AFO rather than platinum's 8 drops of 2%C). Keep in mind that full precipitation of gold to form a true continuous tone gold image requires only a small volume of vitamin C; whereas the other 4 noble metals for which I have patented and/or copyrighted formulas requires more than double the C. What's the difference? Gold is a transition metal but it does not belong to the PGM-- Platinum Group of Metals.

BTW, palladium can be added. I just avoid discussing gold and palladium; that's a Richard Sullivan Ziatype thing -- which is in no way related to my work. Sullivan is the only other person alive who actually invented something in this field.
This process is so simple you would think even a photrio analog forum troll could do it; but no, they can't. You will walk away from them in disgust and hear the slamming of their false teeth on the tabletop in a display of dementia praecox.

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