Digital BW, The Print

I once was trying to print on rice paper, but couldn't get it to feed. I
wanted a translucent effect so I tried some "architiect's vellum". It was a
translucent sheet of some sort of plastic that truly did not absorb
anything. With great care, I printed everything in reverse, laid the vellum
flat and the rice paper on top of it and got what I wanted. But it would be
easier to put the rice paper through the printer. Has anyone done this?

> From: "Martin Wesley" <mwesley250@...>
> Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 02:32:36 -0000
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Bronzing/haloing...what to do???
> 
> Harvey,
> 
> I have to disagree with you on this one. Just put a drop of pigment
> ink on a piece of paper and watch it bleed out from the contact
> point. Paper is an open lattice of fibers and if the pigment
> particles are smaller that the openings in the lattice they will be
> pulled into the paper along with the liquid carrier by surface
> tension.
> 
> This is what the all the coatings for inkjet papers are about, an
> attempt to control that flow of ink into and onto the paper. If the
> papers are uncoated the tiny droplets tend to bleed and you lose
> sharpness. With too much coating or a plastic coated paper and the
> ink does just sit there on top looking bad.
> 
> The amount of ink penetration into the paper verses the amount
> sitting on the surface verses the amount interacting with the coating
> determines the many different characteristics and appearances of all
> these papers.
> 
> Martin
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., SKID Photography
> <skid@b...> wrote:
>> Martin Wesley wrote:
>> 
>>> Sadly to say, pigmented B&W inks and glossy papers don't mix well.
>>> The papers do not absorb the ink and it sits on the surface
> causing
>>> the problems you mention.
>> 
>> <snip>
>> 
>> Pigment inks *never* absorbs into *any* paper.  They are made to
> sit on the surface.  The problem with pigment
>> inks on glossy paper is that the inks are matte and these matte
> inks sit on surface of the glossy papers and
>> look odd.
>> 
>> Harvey Ferdschneider
>> partner, SKID Photography, NYC
>> 
>> 
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