Digital BW, The Print

A word of explanation on the prints Jerry mentions below. After all 
the various coating trials I did, I wound up with a big stack of 
coated prints. Some of them found their way to Todd and we started an 
impromptu circulation of the package of prints among about 10 people.

My idea was to give people a chance to see what a vanished inkjet, in 
this case Piezo, print looked like and get their opinions. The idea 
was I would collect all the comments after everyone had seen them and 
post one big message. We thought that we would get 10 uninfluenced 
impressions this way. Unfortunately I forgot to enclose any kind of 
instructions with the prints before they got to Jerry.

In any case, I am go to hold my comments for the moment and ask the 
rest of the group do the same.

If anyone else would like to see them, let me know and I can add you 
onto the end of the list. Each participant is responsible for the 
cost of shipping to the next person on the list.

These are not fine prints. I did the coating trials on work prints 
and the coatings are far from flawless. It is more an example of the 
possibilities of different coatings and papers combinations and not 
of what could be achieved in the quality area. I also included some 
uncoated prints for reference.

Martin Wesley

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson 
<jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> Martin, I just got the Varnished prints, but there is no sheet in 
the
> package to indicate where I should send it next.
> 
> I got the package from Mark Tucker.  If a post with everybody's 
address
> was sent, I must have either missed it, or not received it.
> 
> After looking at all the many different varnishes and papers, I must
> say, I don't care much for the look. The blacks are a bit deeper, 
but
> that quality is offset by the overall look of the paper, which just
> doesn't seem "right".  Some papers look better than others, but one 
in
> particular, Museum Parchment/Royal Riviera/Torchon (Same paper) 
looks
> particularly horrible. Just awful.  The prints look like they were
> printed on wrinkled saran wrap.
> 
> I love the blacks on uncoated Torchon, as they are about as deep as 
they
> get. I sure wish there was less texture on that paper though.
> 
> I have made prints on Torchon, Epson Archival, Epson Watercolor, 
Legion
> Photomatte and Eclipse, all which are extremely close to Torchon. 
> 
> I am very glad to see these coatings, to see what they look like, 
and
> want to thank you for all the work that must have been, but I 
personally
> just don't care for the "look" of varnished watercolor papers.
> 
> Jerry