Digital BW, The Print

I did a couple of 24"x 44" prints this past week with Premium Luster
and the 9600 with PK UC. This particular composite was put together on
a very large ground of pure black (0 in PS). I have to say for someone
who uses primarily fine art media this was a very impressive black,
clean and smooth and deep within a color rgb image. But, what really
surprised me was the depth of black I ended up with after spraying
with Premier Art. Now that is as good as anything I can do on a fine
darkroom paper. Impressive. I've done this in the past but never with
such a large area of pure black on the Premium Luster. With that spray
the relief problems went away too even on such a large image. What we
need is a good non-solvent spray that will do the same thing. I don't
like wearing masks and goggles, that reminds me of the old nasty toxic
days. I still don't like the idea of using plastic media either
because I think it could very easily dry out and become brittle in the
long term so I hope we can end up with a nice gloss fiber paper some
day. It will come. But for now I'm happy to have what I have. If I
didn't have to switch out my inks and go through all that I would do a
lot more of it.

John