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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Bad News About Alise Natural

2010-01-14 by Andrew Sharpe

That's pretty clever. I was lamenting the fact that the pure carbon ink
I use won't stick to glossy paper; now I can see that that is a feature. :)

Andrew


> On 1/9/10 2:30 PM, Roger Sopher wrote:
>> An old trick that has worked well for me is to print a B&W ramp on
>> glossy paper to which the ink will mainly sit on the surface rather than
>> be absorbed. Once it has dried one can take a small pointed brush dipped
>> in a bit of water or saliva if you prefer and remove a bit of ink from
>> the ramp that matched the area you need to spot and then spot the print
>> with it much as you would use a dilution of Spotone. Since it is the
>> same ink used for the print the match will be good and the permanence
>> identical. I've used this method since the mid nineties, cheap and
>> effective.


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