Digital BW, The Print

Eric,

That is good to know. I haven't had the trouble with Smooth Cotton the
way I did with Photorag but your point is well taken. I've only used
it so far for large prints and it has never given me any trouble with
any inkset, but books are a different animal altogether.

Legion Somerset Velvet is possibly what you refering to here, but it
is very flat looking to me in black density and gamut. And, with Epson
inks the blacks would still scuff. The Legion Matte scratches about
the same as EEM. RC papers are the worst.

Unfortunately everything photographic for a book is going to have to
be sprayed, regardless, in my experience, especially with Ultrachrome.

I have tryed painting on the DCP varnish and it just destroyed the
surface and tonality of the print, but I like it for canvas just fine.

John

 >
> John, I have been printing quite a bit with Innova Smooth Cotton, and 
> it it scuffs very easily. For books? no way. I just picked up some DCP 
> varnish to try and would consider spraying only those pages in a book 
> with images. I have also printed with a Legion book papaer, but don't 
> recall the specific name right now. It could be a 115g Somerset but 
> I'll need to check the package. 
> 
> Eric
>