Drying Contact Sheet Prints

Video Transcript

"So after I've washed my prints in running water for five minutes, I'm going to come out to the dry area, and I'm going to take my squeegee,and I'm going to squeegee off the excess water, off of my print. One important part of whatever I use, any squeegee, is I always look and make sure the squeegee is clean itself. There's been a few times where I've gotten a squeegee that had some dirt or sediment on it, and I scratched my print. There's nothing worse than making a print, and scratching it in the squeegeeing process, so I always kind of check and make sure it's clean. I squeegee the front and the back of a print, and I really try to squeegee off as much of the water as I can, because that's going to help my print dry faster. Now in this dark room, there's two ways which we can dry prints. In a lot of dark rooms,there's probably a couple of different ways. The way I like to dry prints, is just using a rack system like this, where I just put them on the rack, and usually between ten and fifteen minutes later, they're dry. There's another way, where I can take a hair dryer, with the setting on low, you never really want to have the setting on high. You want to use low, and I just dry it, and now there's another way,where they have commercial print dryers, where I can put my print in, and it would be dry in about five minutes, but I think the hair dryer rack system works pretty well."