Digital BW, The Print

Lets try this: what papers are best for printing Matte as well as "glossy type"? Are Ilford or MOAB seen as "junk" papers? The majority of my work is of musicians doing live shows, and often the purchasers are looking for a glossy type of print.  This all started in my quest to find out about framig pictures and has evolved into what type of paper is used. 
 
 
Joseph Chandler  

From: mrjimbo <mrjimbo@...>
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] adhesion of print to mat


  
Ooooooh, David your being brutal...:-))... Hopefully your not suggesting that Say Epson's Photo paper line ..ie Prem Glossy, Prem Luster or the newer Prem Semui matte are junk papers.. Their not in my opinion ...just used in instances where one wants to emulate a traditional photograph. Fine art papers which compare more to water color type materials are a different duck and should be treated that way.. I duley respect your take on this and it indicates your position in the prints you market.. That's a good thing.. This is a B&W group.. which is specific to that process and not necessarily just fine art on higher end fine art papers. Anyway I like your position and concur personally but as a service provider I realize that art is in the eye of the beholder so I feel it appropriate to respect our differences.

jimbo
----- Original Message ----- 
From: David Kachel 
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] adhesion of print to mat

>>> If, however , they are a photographic type material is deemed acceptable to
mount them to a substrate.

jimbo, good point. I tend to forget that most photographers use junk
materials.
If the prints were made on trash papers, then it doesn't matter if they were
mounted to old Big Mac boxes using chewing gum and scotch tape.
If however, they are serious prints on quality papers, then nothing sticky,
no matter what 3M says, should ever be used.
And foam coreS NEVER! Same category as Big Mac boxes.

David Kachel

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