Digital BW, The Print

Hello David,

>Are you now more motiviated to use Alpha Cellulose paper versus 
>cotten for most applications?

Well, yes and no.  It depends on what you mean by "most".  Now that
I'm finally accepting that they are as long lasting as cotton I'm
using them more for some things.  For example I'm working on a big
scrapbook project for my church, lots and lots of small prints, and am
now switching everything over to AC for that, because it's thinner and
cheaper and will be viewed through sleeved pages.  Also, when I take
snapshots and want to give friends a print, they will certainly be on
either Kayanta or Fiba.

But if they're hand held (and I am planning to market some boxed
portfolio sets), there's nothing like the richness of a cotton paper.
There is also a wide range of effects from the various papers, and I
regularly use 4 or 5 diferent ones, depending on which suits an image
best.  Shifting to AC would reduce the choices (at the current state
of affairs).  So for the time being all my signed fine art prints will
remain on cotton.

But that could change. One factor for me, because I print primarily
BO, is that certain images that don't work as well with BO on cotton
look much smoother on AC and look fine.  Also, I recently printed an
image on Photo Rag and on Fiba, and from two feet away couldn't tell
the difference.  So things are certainly getting more interesting.
Exciting times.

Regards,
Clayton


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