Digital BW, The Print

Daniel,

try rods such as...
http://www.buschmancorp.com/wirewound.asp.
http://www.rdspecialties.com/labs.htm
http://www.eepjon.com/Rods.htm

Ask Robert Morrison (on this list) for more details.


Also look at:
http://www.ijsupplies.com/ij-clear-coatings.html

Good luck going after the holy grail!


Antonis. 



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel Staver" 
<daniel@p...> wrote:
> I just made my first attempt at coating a print using the following
> procedure:
> 
> - 2 layers of Golden Soft Gel (Gloss) brushed on with one hour drying
> time between the two coats.
> 
> - 2 layers of Golden Polymer Varnish with UVLS (Gloss) also brushed on
> with one hour drying time between coats.
> 
> My first impression is that this looks really beautiful. Sure I got
> visible brush streaks from the first coat, and lots of dust on the
> print, but the blacks are much, much better, and I feel the picture got
> some extra 'punch' that wasn't there before. It's got the deep blacks of
> glossy papers with the texture and archivability of fine art matte
> papers - Seems like a great combination to me. 
> 
> I measured the uncoated black to 2.54 and coated to 2.85 on EAM. This
> should only be about 2% difference, but in reality it looks much
> greater. Holding an uncoated black patch against the coated print makes
> the patch look very gray, not black.
> 
> Next time I'm going to try a roll instead of a brush for the first coat,
> and do the coating in my bathroom instead of my dusty carpeted room.
> 
> This was very encouraging, I'm really looking forward to doing more
> experiments now! 
> 
> --
> Daniel Staver
> http://daniel.staver.no