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[Digital BW] Re: Toxic yellow photorag!

2004-10-27 by lulalake_1999

Hey Peter,

Do you cut down the sheets to size or are you using the smaller size 
paper for printing?

Thanks

Jules


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Nelson" 
<pnweb@s...> wrote:
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Walker 
> Blackwell" <lists@g...> wrote:
> > We have to realize that these prints are not 
> > photographs persay.  They're physically more like 
> > charcoal drawings on newsprint or watercolors on 
> > watercolor paper. 
> 
> As an artist I've been using Canson Mi Teintes pastel paper for 
> years, hanging it all over my house, often without any glass in 
front 
> and I've NEVER had any yellowing.   (BTW I had a show at a local 
> gallery last May of inkjet prints on Canson Mi Teintes using the 
flat-
> feed feature of my 2200.  That printer will print on damn near 
> anything!)
> 
> > All of my current clients know this about digital prints.
> > It's a major consideration when getting into this whole
> > shibang.  It's also something that's pushing me away from
> > being in Chicago and driving me back home to Vermont. 
> > There's way less pollution out there, you know?
> 
> Wrongo!  Vermont is downwind of the ENTIRE COUNTRY and parts of 
> Canada.     Vermont has, among other things, the worst acid rain 
> problem in the US.  It also gets a lot of other junk.   My brother 
> lives in the northern kingdom and could tell you horror stories.
> 
> Still, it really says something about how unreliable inkjet 
printing 
> technology is if people are actually considering MOVING just to get 
> more stable prints.

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