Digital BW, The Print

Thanks for the information! I'm going to try to look for a norwegian or
scandinavian company that sells the rods, otherwise I'll have to make an
international order I guess. 

--
Daniel Staver
http://daniel.staver.no 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Antonis Ricos [mailto:antonisphoto@...] 
> Sent: 1. juni 2003 03:11
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: First attempt at coating
> 
> 
> 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
> 
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