Digital BW, The Print

Few darkroom printers coat prints, typically matte spraying for
personal aesthetic reasons (ugly!) or after retouching to protect and
hide retouching medium (such as airbrush, pencil, or crude dust
spotting).... 

A few have used paste waxes such as Johnson's on air-dried
prints...museums sometimes do/did ...I did it to protect prints from
kitchen fumes :-)...they look fine thirty years later, still look fine
today...but so do the unsprayed prints.

I've seen no reason to spray several Epson or Moab papers (such as
Entrada)...maybe I will soon, to explore deeper blacks. 

The "flaking" that's sometimes mentioned with Entrada are probably
from dust on the paper when printed (blow it off first with canned
air) rather than sensitive surface.

Djon



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
> I'm puzzled.  Did people coat "air dried fibre prints"  (is that the
right
> term that people attach to fine darkroom prints?)?