Digital BW, The Print

There is one more thought I just had before ending the day. I just
walked by a print that I did about 3 years ago on a metallic paper
that a low end paper company, Red River, makes. It is an inkjet coated
metallic media that comes in silver and gold used I assume for
greeting cards and such. I did a few monochrome things on it with the
Lyson Quads and they have held up surprisingly well, when sprayed, for
over 3 years in daylight with no glass. They look sort of like
daguerreotypes and have alot of potential but since I assumed the
worst about their longevity, I moved on and never sold anything on it.

Actually this could be a very interesting approach to the
inkjet/metallic fusion, just incorporate the metal in the media itself
not in the inkset. It seems to me that Kodak even has a type c paper
out now that does that and there are numerous offset papers that have
some degree of metallic content. It makes me wonder why someone hasn't
seriously tried this for piezzo papers. We could do some unbeliveable
things adding hues from the standard inksets to this mix.