Digital BW, The Print

At 05:52 PM 11/17/2002 -0000, you wrote:
>My apologizes if this has already been discussed but I'm curious if 
>anyone has experience coating prints simply to protect them from 
>handling. I am printing a series of duotone images on a 2200 and Epson 
>Archival Matte. The end result will be "bound" into a book of sorts 
>and I'm thinking about trying to coat them. I don't have any 
>particular need to change their dmax or appearance and I don't want to 
>(significantly) degrade their permanence or stability, but I'd like to 
>protect them as best as possible from handling. Any suggestions or 
>experience?
>
>Thanks
>
>Art Maples
>art@...
>www.duotone.com
>
Art,

Traditionally bound art prints are interleaved with something. Even if you
coat the pictures you should do this.  I have seen very nice bound editions
with tipped in pictures and interleaving. The main advantage of having the
print on another sheet of paper (at least a third again larger than the
print) is that the pages lay flat. Light Impressions has all types of
interleaving paper.

AZ

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