Digital BW, The Print

Ol' Don: If you will go with 100% rag museum board, your life will be much
simpler (only one board to order, such as Westminster or Alpha ArtCare).
The 100% white board enhances light instead of absorbing it, such as an
off-color white might do.  If you are not dry-mounting, try a window mat of
museum board with a good-sized margin of the unprinted paper showing, say
1/2" on the top and sides and 1 1/2" on the bottom or so.  The eye will make
a transition from the white museum board to the base paper to the image...
It helps if the matt is somewhat larger than the image, say a 16x20 matt
assemblage for an 10x15 image size.  Hope this helps.

Regards,

  --Ken Carney
    www.kencarney.com  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don [mailto:elixirs4me@...] 
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 10:04 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] A question about matting
> 
> I have been wrestling lately with matching the color (warmth) 
> of my matting board when I print on a natural finish art 
> paper.  I never seem to be able to find the proper match. 
> Either the matte is too white or too pink or whatever to 
> match good natural paper with no optical brighteners.
> 
> Am I too picky here?  Have any of you conquered this problem?
> 
> I know I know, too many loaded questions here, but thanks for 
> any advice.
> 
> 
> Ol' Don in Broken Arrow
> 
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