Digital BW, The Print

and interestingly, a well varnished good matte print can bear more resemblance to what many of us like about silver, than the PK inkjet papers. In the early days of this forum, many were experimenting with various approaches and sent around a group of prints for some of us to see. The thing is, the image is "In" the coating, and then the clear coating becomes the new actual surface, with the image below. Much like the silver, baryta, gelatin, etc. construction.
PK photo ink papers, the image still sits on top, even a bit of spray seems to help.
The reason some of us respond more favorably to matte ink than matte silver is part of the same scenario, they bear more resemblance to platinum, palladium, gravure, etc, where the image is within the surface, but there is nothing between us and that surface. But with matte silver there's the somewhat dull gelatin over it...
I still try various treatments over matte prints from time to time, but have not found a practical way to go despite some promising tests.
Sunday morning musings...
Tyler


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, C D Tobie <CDTobie@...> wrote:
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> Many of the characteristics that make matte media desirable are lost  
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