Digital BW, The Print

Hi Steve,

No, no droplets except on a rare occasion when I had a can that was
near the end or a flawed nozzle on it (twice in years past) I have
never noticed uneven spray patterns on the papers as you refer to. It
is possible that you need to hold the scan closer to the surface. It
could be drying before it hits the paper. And also keep the can moving
in wave patterns and overlap continuously.

Now one very strange thing did happen to me on this job though. I did
three coats of Premier Art spray outside in a very damp environment on
this 22x444 because I am about to leave town and just wanted to get
the things done and delivered. Of course the rc prints needed to cure
for 24 hours at least to outgass before I did it. They actually had 48
hours under airconditioning to do so this time.  What happened was I
noticed a slight fogging of the surface after one dried, that didn't
look like the outgassing fog you can encouneter. It was subtle and
only happend on one of the big prints. It made me mad. What I did was
pull out my fine cotton scanning drum cloth and polished the surface
of that print. The foggyness went away entirely with no scratches or
any defects. I may have put too much spray on that one. You only
really need three light coats. 

I like what you say about the K3 set. There is always something to
spend money on huh? The government just said that the majority of
Americans spend everythng they make and save nothing anymore. What do
they expecet when we have to buy a new Epson printer every year?

John (headed for vacation and no computer screens for one week)






--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
> 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@y...>
> > 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