Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john dean"
<deanwork2003@...> wrote:
>
> Concorde Rag was not "pumpkin orange".

If you say so...

> I used it for years and the
> results with Piezotone Carbon Sepia were excellent. Everyone loved the
> print color. The problem was the image bleached out over time when
> exposed to daylight. Legion created a lot of disasters around the
> world with that one simply because it WAS the only really warm toned
> paper around. I can't image how many prints sold through galleries
> have faded by now. I would never buy anything sold by Legion as a
> result. Don't trust their Photo Matte with the heavy dose of poorly
> made oba's either. I've had those prints turn yellow in the whites
> within 4 years hanging in my studio. We all live and learn.

Real khaki is pretty fade resistant. How about loading an empty cart
with Khaki, and precoating paper, or building a QTR curve that runs it
into the lighter tones. You could also do this with pigment inks, mix
yellow and magenta to get that "not pumpkin" (honestly!) orange, and
load that into one cart, probably the one in teh yellow position.

You could also run khaki through an HVLP sprayer.

You can brew khaki yourself from Osage Orange (aka, "hedge", "horse
apple", "bodark" or "bois d'arc") wood. Find someone who's got an old
farm with the bodark planted close together, get them to cut you a
limb and run a few pounds through the chipper. Boil it, and be
careful, that stuff stains.