Digital BW, The Print

Matthew, if you can't get an extremely deep black equal to silver prints
with epson dye inks on photorag paper or epson papers, you are surely
doing something wrong.  You may have a setting somewhere that makes all
the difference, Double check all of them !


Jerry



Matthew Born wrote:
> 
> Very interesting. I, like many of us, it would seem, love the black density
> from dyes but would very much like to find something that lasts a bit
> longer. I also like the general look and feel of Photo Rag and Satine, but
> even with my dyes and lots of tweaking they seem awfully light. There's a
> lot of uneven surface area there for the light to bounce around in; varnish
> would do the trick. If a 2200 ever shows up on our (U.S) shores again, I
> might jump in and give the Mayer rod a whirl. Or I could varnish a dye print
> and get some *really* interesting results...I'm assuming that, unlike the
> commercial offset inks I'm used to, inkjet dyes would smear like butter, no?
> Or I stand under Mark's window and wait for that 9600 to come sailing out. I
> figure if the blacks are that light, it won't hurt too much when it lands on
> me.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Matthew
> 
> --------
> >>Mathew,
> 
> >>This is a common technique in ink/pigment labs where we use the Mayer rod
> for testing small samples.  I then adapted this for use with coatings for
> our prints.  It works well up to about 24" wide.  Beyond that I think it
> will be difficult to manage the rod without a specially built rod holder.
> 
> The key with a rod coating is using the proper rod (wire) size for the
> viscosity of the coating that you are applying...this in turn needs to be
> balanced with the polymer solids in the coating.
> 
> Robert
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