Digital BW, The Print

Carolyn, I just rubbed a sheet of William turner paper and made a print.
I can see no burnishing marks at all
It looked just fine. I then rubbed an old print from my first piezo
days. The paper was Wells River, which I 
believe is Jon Cone's name for lightweight William Turner. About 200
flakes came off and so there are about 200 white areas all over the
print. I hadn't rubbed this paper down before I printed on it. I didn't
know that doing so would elimanate a lot of the flaking problems back then.

So even today, this very expensive paper has a very serious problem with
potential flaking. I didn't rub the print all that hard. Who's to say
that in a few years time the prints on this paper won't start flaking
all by themselves?

I do remember when I first got into digital printing, I sent for some
sample prints from Lyson.  They send a model printed on about 8
different papers. Every single one of them had a huge number of white
flakes all over the prints. I couldn't understand why they would have
ever sent them out as samples.  I just took another look at them, and
they are truly a mess. Thousands of little white areas all over the
prints, and they have just been setting in a 
drawer since I got them, about 7 years ago. These Lyson Papers were in
fact Hahnemuhle papers.  By now, you would think that hahnemuhle would
have had so many complaints they would have fixed this problem. 

Jerry


Carolyn Frayn wrote:
> 
> > Carolyn, which papers do you see burnishing on?
> 
> Well's River (William Turner) and German Etching. Especially WT.
> 
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> > I'll try it under really bright light.
> 
> ;)... hold the paper at an angle to that light, have an area you
> haven't rubbed so you can compare... I'm very curious, as I haven't had
> any luck with the rubbing, without that effect.
> 
> Carolyn
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