Digital BW, The Print

Hi,  I've had very good results with Photorag Satin and like the surface
very much - its quite susceptible to scratching though.  Your gelatine
experiments sound interesting, how are you applying it?  If you do a search
on the forum you will see posts from Mantinieri on a similar subject
although he is printing on uncoated fine art paper with his own formulation
of inks.

 

David Whistance

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Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Satin Paper to use with MK ink

 

  



<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. 





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