Digital BW, The Print

You also do not always have to prep the surface. I do some printing with an
Encad Croma 24 using Ilford archival dye inks straight onto Arches
watercolour paper. Colour saturation drops markedly, because the ink is
drawn down into the fibres. I am assuming this is because we are seeing the
ink through a layer of cellulose, so effectively white is being added to the
colour.

However for certain types of prints it works great. The other advantage of
uncoated is that you will get a higher dot gain, the ink will spread as it
soaks in. So these low res prints (the croma is 300dpi) don't show
individual dots, because they blend together.

As I said, not for all images but quite suitable for some.

Cheers,

Wayne

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Wayne J. Cosshall
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