Digital BW, The Print

John

When you look at the solid black areas closely, can you see droplets of
spray on the image?  I have abandoned spraying with Lyson Printguard for
this reason.  Luckily the new K3 UCs are more scratch resistant.

Steve 


> From: john dean <deanwork2003@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:42:58 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Premium Luster DMax 2.4
> 
> 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