Digital BW, The Print

On Saturday, March 13, 2004, at 01:55 PM, Mark Hahn wrote:

> ok, this seems like a backward question, but how would you spot an
> inkjet print?  Didn't notice 2 spots in black areas in a 8x12" print
> from my 7660... think the driver sharpened them up, but with a
> $3/print cost I'd rather just spot the print... like in the good 'ole
> days.  I have Spotall and a Sharpie pen, which would be better? 
> Spotall is water based and the Sharpie solvent based... don't want to
> mess up that glorious gloss surface:)
>

Mark,

I have found spotting inkjet prints to be very difficult to impossible, 
although there have been times in a time squeeze that I've been able to 
do it, and I believe it was with a Sharpie, which is probably about as 
un-archival as you can get. I have some spotting inks that have 
sometimes worked, too, although not all that well.  There's something 
about the spot that seems to repel whatever you're trying to put in it 
to the surrounding area, so that you wind up with the spot still there 
and an even darker ring around it- and this is working very dry, with a 
brush.   I have even gone so far as to carefully measure where the spot 
was, and run the print back through the printer to spot one little spot 
with a spot of nearby color, thinking that would work.  It didn't, even 
though I hit the spot.  Exceedingly difficult, in my experience.

James Irelan


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