Digital BW, The Print

Sorry - maybe I missed it  but what do you fog with and how?


> From: "Nick H. Nugent" <nghin@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:12:35 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Print spraying & glazing
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> 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
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