Digital BW, The Print

Your description reminds me of some photographs I saw years ago in a 
local gallery.  Subjects were mostly USA rust belt industrial derelicts 
(buildings and/or machinery), but they were "printed" directly on 
aluminum or copper.  Fascinating images.  I had neither the money nor 
wall space to own one, and I think they needed pretty specific (and 
intense) lighting to show at their best, but I'll never forget them.  It 
could be very interesting if it proved to be possible to do something 
like that in inkjet (I even have Lyson Quads in one of my printers.)

Cheers,
Kip

john dean wrote:

>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.
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>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. 
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