Digital BW, The Print

> Just out of curiosity, what is each of your motivations for all of this
> coating business? Is it to further print permanence and
> protection, or is it for the visual look of having a print with a
> coating on it? (Or is it to start a business?)

Mark,

I embarked on this project to get a print that reminded me of a finely
glazed oil painting.  Deep rich shadows, pristine highlights and luminous
midtones...a print that looked good enough to eat.  I assumed that with the
right coating I could also enhance image permanence. Antonis Rico provided
many hours of helpful discussion and helped in measuring dmaxs.  After an
initial set of huge paper and coating screens (back in June and July) I
decided to see where things stood on image permanence so I set up a fade
test with several papers and different coatings applied in different ways.

After having spent nearly a $1000 dollars on ink and paper and more than a
hundred hours working on my goal...and realizing the complexity of what I
was trying to achieve I decided to approach a vendor to see if they were
interested in such a product.  After seeing a sample of BW and color Piezo
and Epson Pigmented Ink prints they jumped at the opportunity and added that
they were willing to develop an ink jet paper that would be optimized for
coating Piezo prints...I jumped at this opportunity believing that this was
the next step for Piezo.

That's where things stand.  I don't have any experience with the MIS inks,
but the coatings that I'm working with work well on both piezo and epson
pigment prints...they should work on MIS prints if the prints on a given
paper are water resistant (piezo prints on Red River Aurora and Hawk
Mountain Osprey are not water resistant and therefore don't work with my
coatings). I hope to be in beta testing in the next 2 months.  Thanks for
your interest.

Robert

PS  I've been careful not to mention the vendor I'm working with as to avoid
spam but will let you know where you can find out more if you email me off
list.


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