Digital BW, The Print

On 21 Dec 2009, at 4:31 PM, pr_roark wrote:

> One of the significant things I've found is that briefly rinsing Arches has very little impact on the image.  

Exciting experiments!  In my very first forays into quadtone printing, back in the late 1990s, I used a lot of uncoated Somerset Velvet (with Piezography inks, as I recall), and really enjoyed the look.

I'm familiar with rinsing/soaking paper when doing intaglio etching work.  That's done in part to remove the sizing, and in part to make the paper more pliable for the impression of the plate.  Obviously inkjet is a whole different thing, but I wonder whether you've experimented with any sort of pre-moistening of the paper, and whether that would reduce the ink saturation?

--John