Digital BW, The Print

Steve,

Try Dick Blick art supplies.

http://www.dickblick.com/

The system I last used was two part. The first and critical part is a sealer
coat and the second is the actual varnish.

As a sealer "Morrison's Mix":
   1 part Golden Acrylic Medium Gloss
   1 part Golden GAC 700
   1 part water

  As a varnish:
   1 part dilute Golden Acrylic Flow Release
   (1 part Release to 4 parts water)
   2 parts Golden Polymer Varnish UVLS

Use distilled water. You may need to play with the dilution rates depending
upon the paper you want to coat.

See: Files > Coating inkjet prints

Parts 3 and 4.

Martin Wesley
http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html



----- Original Message -----
From: "steven0356" <stevenr@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 4:22 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Coating revisited


> Marin
>
> Were did you get Golden water based acrylic vanishe and how did you
> apply it?
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Martin Wesley" <
> mwesley250@e...> wrote:
> > Paul,
> >
> > I have done a bit of laminating for mundane purposes such as Photo ID
badges
> > and signs. Basically the Dmax goes up, the photos are very well
protected
> > and they look like they have been, well, plastic laminated. Not very
> > appealing I am afraid.
> >
> > If you are interested in this then look to companies that sell products
to
> > the sign making industry, which is very inkjet oriented. You can get
small
> > size laminating equipment and supplies from places like Office Max.
> >
> > The Golden coatings Robert and I tried were the water based acrylic
vanishes
> > and so the odor is low and the cure times shorter. Robert and Mark tried
the
> > Golden solvent base varnishes and found them difficult to work with in
part
> > due to the long dry time.
> >
> > You will never remove a coating from an ink jet print. It will soak into
the
> > paper. What you can do is create an initial sealer coat over which you
apply
> > the final varnish. It would be conceivable to remove the upper coats
without
> > harming the lower ones and then replace the upper ones as is done in
> > painting. This is only something that would be done if the upper coating
was
> > damaged. If this were the case an uncoated print by comparison would be
in
> > very bad shape.
> >
> > I have seen heavily varnished albumen prints from the 1870's and the
varnish
> > appeared to be in very good condition. The overall effect of the print
was
> > rather yellow and may in part be the result of the varnish yellowing.
None
> > of the materials available at that time for varnishing come close to the
> > quality of things like the Golden acrylics so keep that in mind.
> >
> > My though is that a well varnished inkjet print will most likely out
last
> > those that are not coated. It is more a question of whether you like the
> > effect or not.
> >
> > Martin Wesley
> > http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html
> >
> >
>
>
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