Digital BW, The Print

Steve, Mounting before spraying is a must for me with the ink jet process;
which can get expensive if you mess up at all. You lose the print, board,
adhesive and most valuable all that time. 

I would think that some tests would need to be done to see how hot it takes
to see a change, if it is indeed possible. I suspect that if you took a
piece of unprinted paper, and cooked it in the press or drying box BEFORE
printing, you'd be able to test the heat without image. Then you can go back
and try it with image content to see what happens to the ink and paper.  IN
my silver days, I rarely tried to increase the gloss. If I needed a glossier
print, I choose a different paper. 

 

 Eric

 

 

Eric Neilsen Photography

4101 Commerce Street

Suite 9

Dallas, TX 75226

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Steven
Karafyllakis
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 3:52 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Glossy Quality RE: [Digital BW] Re: Damned good glossy prints

 

Eric

I sometimes use a hair dryer (has no visible effect on gloss) to 
hasten 'dry-up' if I want to do a quick densitometer reading, but 
I've done no sytematic 'research' into it. I have tried to dry-mount 
the Ultra-smooth after a Premierart coating, and ruined the print 
completely. Dry-mounting before coating was better, but still tricky. 
Heat applied that way killed the gloss, but in a very patchy way. 

Steve Karafyllakis

--- In DigitalBlackandWhit
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eThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "E Neilsen" 
<e.neilsen2@...> wrote:
>
> Steve, Have you or anyone else compared these papers with heat 
drying vs
> just air drying? And posted the results any where? If I needed to 
change the
> gloss quality of a SG paper, I could change the heat under which 
they dried.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Eric Neilsen Photo
> 
> 4101 Commerce Street, Suite 9
> 
> Dallas, TX 75226
> 
> 214 827-8301
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> 
> 
> http://ericneilsenp <http://ericneilsenphotography.com> hotography.com
> 
> SKype ejprinter
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eThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhit
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eThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Steven
> Karafyllakis
> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 1:14 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhit
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eThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Damned good glossy prints
> 
> 
> 
> Sarah;
> 
> An issue we haven't really come to grips with! Someone mentioned 
Ilford 
> Galerie as a paradigm...I used mostly Ilford MGFB lately, which was 
> glossier; Kodak's FB papers were a bit different still; so what 
> are "we" looking for? what we're getting is a range, just like we 
had 
> in SG papers; Once the gloss-differential problem is solved 
(without 
> spraying I hope) I think we'll be in excellent shape!
> 
> Steve Karafyllakis
> 
> >> what so many of us are truly looking for in these 
> > papers. It sure isn't hard to figure out if one spends even a 
half 
> hour reading the posts! ;^)
> > 
> > Sarah
> >
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