Digital BW, The Print

Well that's amazing you didn't spray it. That is the absolute smoothest fiber gloss I've seen with K3 inks and no spray. I don't think there is anything the HP can do to beat what you sent me ( but I'll try:-). It might not even be as good who knows. The one thing I really like about Photorag Baryta with the Vivera inks is that it is totally neutral. I have an almost impossible time achieving a totally neutral hue like Cone NK7 with the Vivera inks on the matte papers. They always end up a cooler selenium, which is nice, just not dead neutral if I want the even print color throughout the tonal scale into the white paper base. Hope the Type 5 is like that Photorag Baryta rendition, probably is, because Silver Rag is neutral with these inks.

I've found I want to spray everything on these kinds of gloss fiber papers with a light uv coat to protect them, and as you say it helps integrate into the surface more  fully.

I've never tried the Golden Varnish, really you can paint it on smoothly?


john


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "tboleyyh" <tyler@...> wrote:
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