Digital BW, The Print

Hi Douglas,

You sound like a man I'd have learned a lot from and saved hundreds of
hours of experimenting with various coating techniques. 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Douglas Stockdale
<dstockdale@s...> wrote:
> ...
> As to the "spray on glop" (not sure what glop is), but I can tell
you that you have to be careful of how you stack the spay layers on
top of the image. Old rule of thumb, you can paint oil on a watercolor
painting, but you can't paint watercolor onto an oil painting....

Yes, this is also what I have learned from reading art related posts
on water versus solvent based coatings.

Earlier Steve Kale mentioned the blistering of the glop upon contact
with Lyson Print Guard. I have never used glop but I suspect it might
be the same stuff they use on swellable polymer media. I learned that
to coat this sort of material I need to do something you called
"fogging", and the spray must be water-based because solvent would
interact horribly with the glop-liked coating. Once I have this layer
of fogging I can spray on stop with almost anything.

> We did not ever coat a print to help with fingerprints, if we
thought that the artwork was going to potentially get touched and that
would be detrimental to the print, then we would add a matte and glass
(also called "glazing", see below) ...

Thanks for various tips on glazing.

I would also appreciate further sharing of knowledge on coating
especially matte inkjet prints with the goal of achieving a more
forgiving surface and little reduction in dmax.

I guess sooner or later I will find matte papers that don't flake and
give as deep a black as glossy papers so I don't have to play with
coatings anymore. Until then ...

--nick