Digital BW, The Print

I am guessing the wax would keep the gelatin eating critters from eating
the emulsion too.  We certainly had that problem with unprocessed color
paper.

BTW- I'll take an inkjet print outside and hit it with carburetor cleaner
and see what happens.

Seth

==-----Original Message-----
==From: Djon [mailto:westsidemaurice@...] 
==Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 11:20 AM
==To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
==Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Renaissance Wax and inkjet?
==
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==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. 
==