Digital BW, The Print

<david.whistance@...> wrote:
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> Have you tried Photorag Satin which is designed to work with MK inks?  

Have not used that particular paper. Does it produce a good result?

I do use the Hahn Photorag Pearl with MK using an over-coating. This is my favourite paper as I tend not to frame prints and am not so keen on matt papers not framed under glass. Paul very generously has provided a 3MK set of curves for this paper for use with the R1800 (and quite possibly for other printers, I don't know).

Have used Hahn and Fotospeed sprays to over-coat (nice results but truly toxic substances which need to be treated with great respect), second pass GO (OK but susceptible to banding and track marks) and recently have been trying out coating with photo-grade gelatin. 

Early days yet but gelatin shows great promise, both for inkjet coated papers and watercolour papers. Very benign substance (benefits from a few drops of photoflo), lovely flexible material to work with and provides a beautiful tactile surface, inexpensive. Very familiar to the silver gelatin print generation! Need to find a way of applying the coating evenly to discourage curling and also to see what its long term archival properties are.