Digital BW, The Print

Tyler,

That is very good to know about Concorde Rag . Wilhelm did some excelerated 
tests years ago with Concorde Rag and the Roland Hi Fi Jet pigment inks and 
reached a 150 year mark ( for what that is worth) without any spraying. I always 
spray my CR prints with Premier Art. But I have to tell you I don't use it much 
anymore because I was afraid of some rumors that I have also heard. I know Jon 
Cone who said he loved the look of the paper too admitted that on his north wall test 
it did the poorest with his pt inkset. That alone worried me. There are also other 
papers sold as Concorde Rag, like that roll version, that are a completely different 
paper than the sheets I have used. I suspect this is what Wilhelm tested for the 
Roland company. But it is not any warmer than Hahnemuhle.

I asked Jim Doyle last week if sees an extremely stable very warm paper coming on 
the scene anytime soon. To me this is a weak link it what we have available to us. 
He said the new natural surface Innova media are going to be useful in this area of 
warm prints. I'd like something truely warm other than Concorde. Hope it happens.

You know there is one other option which I have only done once. That is to lay down 
a very light warm tint of ink over the whole surface of the print. Let that dry and print 
on top of that. This is the kind of thing they used to do in offset printing and it works. 
But what a pain.

John


 
> John, I agree Concorde Rag makes for lovely warm prints. I used to use
> iy a lot. It probably has the warmest base of the papers mentioned so far.
> But I would be very careful of it's use. Many testing it long ago
> found that the base bleached reletively quickly, and for some reason
> image longevity was poor with the 1st generation of quad inks.
> Too bad, lovely stuff.
> Tyler