Digital BW, The Print

This embossing idea goes back as far as the Baroque era at least in the West, and centuries farther back than that in Asia. It was used as a a verification of the authenticity of the print studio that created it. In the digital age this technique was picked up by the Iris 3047 studios to mark editions. Ironically the Asian wood block ink prints are in many cases still  very much intact while most of the Iris prints are deteriorating fast if they are still here at all. But who cares about longevity and authenticity these days. Not many. I just use a pencil.

john

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Tony Sleep <TonySleep@...> wrote:
>
> 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.
> -- 
> Regards
> 
> Tony Sleep
> http://tonysleep.co.uk
>