Digital BW, The Print

Greetings,

Well I am moving into more inkjet B&W printing and away from the 
traditional darkroom. My darkroom prints are always trimmed right to 
the edge of the image, drymounted and overmatted with a reveal of 
the bottom mat board all the way around. Signature on the lower mat 
board just below the print and showing in the window reveal. Thus 
the top window mat board and the small reveal of the lower mat board 
match in color.

Now with inkjet printing on papers that have a much "bluer" paper 
stock, if I don't trim these prints and do the same as above, the 
reveal of the bluer paper stock under the mat window really clashes 
with the color of the mat boards. I have two traded prints from 
board members that are beautiful that I want to frame, but if I 
don't trim the prints, the reveal clashes terribly with the warmer 
boards. I am using Light Impressions whitest boards. One of the 
prints is signed on the white paper surround and so I don't want to 
cut up his print for drymounting.

Hmmmmm, what are board members doing for matting and this 
board/paper color mismatch. Thanks for any help; I am going to delay 
matting until I get some feedback from the group.

Scott