Digital BW, The Print

Mark,

I hope you are printing out all these emails and posts and saving them so you can eventually use them for submitting for a grant. You need a big science grant.

john

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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "mantinieri" <mantinieri@> wrote:
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> > While still researching for a 100% cotton uncoated paper to use without the Carbon-gelatin process, I wonder if I can submit for imaging fade test two samples with the technique described above.
> > Namely, a Pesci HP with Carbon-gelatine process and un uncoated, Pescia Velata for Editions).
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> I try hard to accommodate any printing process AaI&A members wish to submit, but regrettably I have to draw the line on proprietary methods and/or prints embellished by the artist's unique methods because these results would be of little extensible value to other AaI&A members.  A pooled membership funding concept is presently being used by AaI&A to financially support the testing, so the AaI&A database has to stay largely on track with mainstream materials even though it's always interesting to test a few more unique processes thrown in for good measure. 
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> You describe your coating method as a "gelatine proprietary emulsion" on your website, so unless it is for sale as a commercially available product that others could purchase it would need to be tested under private contract and not as part of the membership participation.  The uncoated sample sounds appropriate to test if you are using commercially available inks. That said, and given that other AaI&A members have already walked up pretty hard against the "proprietary methods" boundary line already, I'd probably be inclined to bend the rules a bit for you as well.
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> I'm proud of what AaI&A has managed to achieve in year 2009.  One important contribution was the development of a specific monochrome I* metric test method that enables much more comprehensive testing of monochrome printing processes than any other testing laboratory presently undertakes. There are now about a dozen unique B&W print samples in test with more on the way soon.  The Digital BW forum readers have been more supportive of the AaI&A digital print research program than just about any other group yet the AaI&A membership ranks are still a tiny fraction of what is needed to deal with the wide variety of BW inkjet processes available today let alone all the color processes. My sample testing is still outpacing the AaI&A membership funding by a very large factor. I've got to figure out a solution to that problem soon.  
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> kind regards,
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