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What is your preference for pressing temperature and time
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On 3/1/2022 at 3:15 PM, joeypost said:
On 3/1/2022 at 2:06 PM, Stronguy said:

There are some "experts" out there who use Mr. Clean Magic Eraser to clean white area.  Using this and telling others to use it is criminal.  It literally rips the gloss off the book.

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Looks like they used sand paper. 

Don't mind me ..

Just polishing my comics. 

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I started playing around with heat pressing - the price I have won't go lower than 200F (not a clamshell press) ... so using a bunch of fillers I did some testing; all the books I have worked with were 79's - early 90's (pre-glossy inside pages; haven't done testing on those yet.)
- 20m hot w/6h cold = good results BUT it reverted and/or created waving
- 20m hot w/12h cold = good no reversion but I got waiving
- 10m hot w/24h cold = good all around so far ... haven't had any reversion or waiving ...

edit: forgot, my stack (top to bottom):
- top of press
- magazine backer
- parchment paper
- cover
- parchment paper
- regular backer
- parchment paper
- book to middle (staples)
- parchment paper
- regular backer
- parchment paper
- book to back over
- parchment paper
- magazine backer
- bottom of press
 

This was one of my more recent ones (not a tester, live run I plan to submit) - i circled the defects in the pre-press pirctures

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