Digital BW, The Print

variety...

Hmm ... I think I have an interesting idea ...

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com



Me too, Ultrachrome with a light light black, only I might have to buy
another damn printer... what else is new.


 metallic inks?

You'd have to ask Paul or someone who actually knows about the physics
of pigments and inksets. But I'll tell you I have wondered the same
thing. A lot of the complaints people have about inkjet mono (not from
me by the way) photography have to do with this lack of sparkle that
only a metallic light forming compound can produce. I thought about
that today when I saw that new Piezzotone sample. I was just about to
take back some of the things I said about nasty darkroom work (na).

I assume for some type of metallic inkset you would have to start from
scratch with a new printing system, a new head, software drivers, etc.
I don't see why any of this couldn't be doable. They could be
beautuful,silver metallic compounds distributed through a piezzo type
head. But to me the bigggest two reasons not to pursue that line of
reasoning is that your going right back into toxic heavy metals
discarded into the landfil, into the drinking water,just what we don't
need, and second but not least, the cost of dealing with such hard to
acquire and handle materials. Carbon is cheap,reasonalby safe and
plentiful. So, yea for carbon. I'm quite happy with it. Lets don't
give up on that this year.

John 



<brigsby707@c...> wrote:
> Your post got me thinking.  All of the pigment inks available, are
> based on carbon.  Why?  Does anyone know if any other archival
> substances have been used, possibly even oxidized silver?  It seems
> to me, that since the oxidized silver particles in a gelatin silver
> print are as small as they are, with the proper preparation and
> suspension, an alternative to the realm of carbon pigment prints
> could be explored.
> :
> > I like your yahoo code name, virtually grey. That says it all.
> That's
> > the best we can hope for in this imperfect carbon based world...