Digital BW, The Print

On 20/07/2010 Lew Schwartz wrote:
> Has anyone thought about or tried an embosser for this purpose? I 
> don't know
> how well it'd do given the thickness of most fine art papers.

Can't see the point. You can only use an embossed impression on the 
border, and it if mounted will have to be cut off to allow a matt to sit flat.

OTOH since asking about this I have experimented with rubber stamps and 
both trad ink and spirit based and neither are satisfactory. Trad ink just 
doesn't dry on most papers, whilst spirit-based (like permanent marker 
ink) tends to print through. The spirit based stuff also dries out on the 
pad very quickly, a few days even if the lid is a fairly good seal.

I'm still looking for a very pale gray pad ink that behaves reasonably, 
quite likely a dilute inkjet formulation would be worth trying.
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Regards

Tony Sleep
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