Digital BW, The Print

At 02:33 AM 1/15/04 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi Alan,
>
>I'm not sure what a lap mark is.  With a little gentle buffing with a 
>cotton cloth
>immediately after applying a very thin coat of wax, I get a very smooth even
>surface viewed in any light.  I am putting wax on pig inks on RC paper (Epson
>Premium Luster); and first spraying the print with Premier Art Print Shield
>makes it easier to apply the wax.  One early print I waxed that hadn't been
>sprayed had some of the ink surface lifted off by too vigorous 
>buffing.  Waxing
>matte papers such as Enhanced Matte doesn't seem to work, it clouds the
>image.  Waxing large prints will indeed be fairly slow, but no set up, no 
>foul
>smelling carcinogenic spray or face masks, no special spray booth, no clean
>up, and I can do it myself.  Mostly it yields a great looking, almost 
>invisible,
>surface.
>
>Tom Andrews
>http://www.wildlandart.com
>
> >
> > Tom,
> >
> > Were you able to get the lap marks out using wax?  Try as I might they
> > wouldn't completely go away for me. It would be a pain to wax large 
> prints.
> > BTW pig inks on RC paper have to be sprayed first.  Waxing matte paper
> > doesn't do much for it.
> >
> > AZ
> >

Tom,

I kept getting un-even thickness of wax that would buff out where the 
application strokes over-lapped each other - must not have been holding my 
tongue right.
There is hope then, that waxing may be a good solution.  It is the best 
looking surface I've seen so far. Keep on trucking and report back.

AZ

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