Digital BW, The Print

Tom, 

>I have had a few prints sprayed with Liquitex by Infinite-editions.com 
>in the Denver area.  They use a professional spray gun and spray booth. 

From what I could tell, a good spray gun and booth is the way to go for
large prints.

 >Mixed 2/3 gloss and 1/3 matte it cuts the ultrashininess of the 100% 
>gloss and doesn't have the dulling effect of pure matte.
>Other mixtures and dilutions might be even better? 

The amount of gloss seems to be subjective.  With the Meyer rod the dilution
can also control the glossiness. 

>I didn't know that a UV and a non-UV version was available, 
>nor that the UV version yellows the appearance of the print.

I'm not sure if Liquitex has a UV version either.  I was using a variety of
coatings from different companies.  Some have both UV and non-UV versions.
With at least some of the UV versions I noticed some yellowing.  As an
aside, the Golden tech person noted that the UV coatings are considerably
more effective in the solvent-based coatings.  This is also true with
respect to sealing the surface.  The water-borne versions are like soft
little balls that have lots of holes between them.

I mostly noticed the yellowing in side-by-side comparisons and with the
spectrophotometer readings.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com

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> I used the Meyer rod for applying Liquitex and Hydrocote.  For 8x10 it
> worded fine.  I never did get the system scaled up to 16x20, however.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com 
> 

> Paul - How do you apply the Liquitex (Meyer rod, power spray, brush-on,
> etc.)?
> 
> Ken




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