Digital BW, The Print

Hello Rick,

>I'm coming back to photography after a long break and am going 
>digital.  Will digital prints dry mount?  I have a full-size press 
>(Seal 210) I used to use for fiber-based darkroom prints.

Welcome home :) it's a good time to be getting back in.  Printer, ink
and paper technologies have come a long way over the past few years.

Ink prints will dry mount, but IMO there is no longer any need to do
it.  The main reason for doing it, wrinkled or wavy emulsion papers,
is no longer an issue.  If you want the floating mount look, it can be
emulated by leaving a 1" or greater border around the image and
cutting the window mat big enough to leave a "reveal" area around the
image.  This has the advantage of keeping a signature, title, print #,
etc, on the image paper instead of the mount board.  As a bonus,
mounting/matting time and labor is greatly reduced.  It's great.  You
couldn't pay me enough to go back to dry mounting (well, few could
afford to pay me enough <g>).


Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
I-Trak 2.1   http://www.cjcom.net/itrak.htm