Digital BW, The Print

You can spray with  fixative such as Lascaux which helps.  Doesn't do much
if anything for longevity but could potentially help with flaking.


> From: Peter Nelson <pnweb@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 13:12:12 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Choosing a paper
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Richard
> Smallfield <r.smallfield@...> wrote:
>> Re Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, I've gone through a box and a half and only
> had flaking once or twice. It's well worth that attrition rate for the
> results it gives, IMO.
> 
> How is it AFTER printing?  Is the coating still delicate and prone to
> flaking during the matting and framing process?
> 
> Can we be pretty sure that the flaking doesn't continue over time,
> e.g., from micro-swelling of the fibers resulting from ordinary
> humidity changes on the room where it's hung?
> 
> Maybe I'm just paranoid about it but as an oil painter I'm very aware
> of how serious painters give a great deal of attention to properties
> of their support (canvas or panel plus gesso) and paints and painting
> techniques out of concern for longevity.  Some of the greatest artwork
> in the world was lost to history because of bad guesses by the
> original artists.  Da Vinci's Last Supper has almost entirely
> disintegrated - it's just a ghost of the original.   And not long ago
> I was at the MoMA in NY where many paintings from the 1930's are
> already cracking badly.
>