Digital BW, The Print

Its called a Mayer rod, darling. :-) Get a #22 with a half inch diameter rod
and a big piece of thick glass. Time to get someone to fabricate you a
handle for a big four foot rod...or else find a friend with 5 foot long
arms!  I saw one of my friends today you has also gone through the "spraying
phase"...built his own spray booth etc...he came to the same
conclusion...there must be a better way.  Honestly, I think a HVLP sprayer
might be great if you were doing a large show of big prints...one spray
session in a clean, tented environment...with a respirator...but it will be
much harder to do reproducibly than using a Mayer rod...that's what they are
made for...very uniform coating time after time.  But seriously, I think a
rod works great for up to 22 x 28 prints...we all just need the right gunk
to coat with...which I still working on...hopefully more details soon.

:-)

Robert

On 12/10/02 3:16 PM, "Mark Tucker <mark@...>"
<mark@...> wrote:

> I kinda had a meltdown with this sprayer today. I just simply don't
> want to have to crank this thing up each and every time I make a
> print. Yes, the blacks rock. Yes, the contrast is punchy.
> 
> But with the sprayer, you MUST keep the sprayhead level with
> the ground, ie, upright vertically. If you tilt it, it sputters. But then, if
> you mess up in the least amount with the amount of coating that
> hits the print, and "overspray" it, the coating will potentially will
> begin to run down the print, which *really* looks bad. But you've
> got to suspend the print upright vertically in order for the spray to
> hit the print at the proper angle. Thus the problem.
> 
> And this is not to mention the crap in the air, and the cleanup
> factor after each session, etc.
> 
> There is change in the air. There's just GOT to be a better way.
> 
> MT, http://www.marktucker.com
> 
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