Digital BW, The Print

Why do you think a petroleum base would be bad for a print? I think
it's worth a little experimentation. This calls for a materials
engineer, someone with a microscope. 

I don't think any of the inks or dyes or Epson's encapsulated pigment
are dissolved by anything other than water ..are not petroleum
dissolvable... and I don't think Epson's encapsulated pigment is
dissolved by ANYTHING that's not aggressively corrosive (undoubtedly
acetone and acids, possibly alcohol).

Promo for Renaissance Wax, a synthetic, says certain destructive
alcohols can be created by natural wax in reaction to whatever it's
applied over. Don't know if that's BS or if true is really
significant. From experience, Johnson's paste wax (used to be popular
among some photogs for the purpose) has not hurt my own 20-30 year old
silver prints (I applied it to a few)...

...the only thing likely to have be attacked would be the jello in
which the silver is suspended and the paper underneath. 

> Johnson's Paste wax is petroleum based. Not sure I'd want to do that
to an
> inkjet.
> 
> Seth 
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