Digital BW, The Print

Nick - dyes work best on the gelatin-type papers. I was discussing this with
Ernst earlier and i commented that one of the reasons I have good results
with the lincoln inks is that Barcelona has a fairly high humidity (and
heat!) so the gelatin papers are probably 'pre swollen' to an extent.

Julian
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "nick90290" <NickBrandt@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 5:47 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Lyson SG problems


> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Ernst Dinkla"
> <E.Dinkla@c...> wrote:
> >
>
> >
> > Nick,
> >
> > Like with all other dye inks (semi)gloss paper with a gelatine
> coating can be far more compatible with the ink than matt coated
> papers can be.
>
> Hi Ernst
>
> Wow, really? I was always led to believe, by Lyson's tech dept
> included, that matte papers like their Standard Fine Art was the wya
> to go. Hmmm....
>
> > John Nollendorfs of Lincoln inks (Wide Spectrum) has written me
> that
> humidity during the life of a dye print is an important factor in
> fading (and so part of the Wilhelm test) but also that he and Henry
> > Wilhelm suspect that humidity at that time of printing itself has
> > an influence on fade properties later on. All in all there are
> > too many conditions that have to be controlled when printing dyes
> > that one could say they can be nice in real test conditions but
> > not reliable for normal use. That is if they have to last. If
> > your experience is that the prints fade then there's evidence
> > enough, especially when it is based on the quantity of prints
> > that you have made.
>
> Yes, certainly humidity can play a big factor - the only thing is
> that
> I live in Southern California where the humidity is very low. So at
> time of printing, humidity was almost invariably always low.
>
> Nick
>
> .................
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