Digital BW, The Print

The Renaissance wax treatment worked beautifully for my 2200 UT prints on Ilford 
smooth pearl as well.  Very nice, smooth finish and it completely eliminated both 
bronzing and gloss differential artifacts.  I tried it on prints that were sprayed first 
with Premier Art Print Shield and also on un-sprayed prints.  Both looked good, but as 
you noted the wax was somewhat easier to apply to the sprayed prints.  I also dried 
the prints well between sheets of copy paper for two to three days before either 
spraying or waxing to make sure most of the glycol was gone from the prints.

  --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tom Andrews" 
<tandrews@b...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just tried out some Renaissance wax as a final coat on Epson Premium Luster 
> paper.  It seems to work really well, giving an almost invisible finish to the print.  I 
> rubbed it on the print with a cotton cloth and then buffed lightly with another.  
Dries 
> very fast and becomes quite hard - won't show finger prints.  I also tried putting it 
on 
> after spraying the print with Premium Art Print Shield and it goes on even easier 
and 
> smoother.  I am planning to try out this combination on large 32x40 and 40x50 
prints 
> mounted on gatorfoam or dibond and framed without glass.  I'm still a little 
worried 
> about how durable this combo will be and about how it will affect the longevity of 
my 
> pigment ink (10K) prints.  
> 
> However, the blurb from Renaissance (sold by Light Impressions for $19.95/8oz) 
> says that it is acid-free, developed for preservation use, and used by museums on 
> the surface of fiber-based silver photographic prints.  I also tried it on Photorag for 
> the hell of it - turns the image to soft mush.  I'm hoping that this is the solution to 
> my quest for glassless framing.  If not I may use another spray such as Liquetex.  
> What I like about the Print Shield/Wax combo is that it gives a surface that is 
> relatively indistinguishable from the untreated print. 
> 
> I haven't tried it on Epson Premium Semimatte yet.  I just ordered a roll and printed 
> on it for the first time using my custom profile for Luster and can't easily tell the 
> difference between it and Luster, except the semimatte is very smooth and the 
> Luster has a very fine pebbly texture when viewed in certain light.  I wish it came in 
> sheets as well as rolls.  Cheers,
> 
> Tom Andrews
> http://www.wildlandart.com