Digital BW, The Print

Hello, 
I started to hang b&w prints (MIS VM ink) on my walls and found the glass to be a problem: Antireflex glass is not transparent enough, reflex glass has way too much reflexions from various angles, the very best is without glass at all. 

What does this mean for the longevity of a) the print and b) of the passepartout. It is a normal (dry) living room, no direct sun. 

Would a kind of "anti UV" spray be useful?  Do you recommend to put the prints behind glass in any way?

Thanks for answering, 

Bernhard


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--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Bernhard.Schuerlein@t... 
wrote:
> Hello, 
> I started to hang b&w prints (MIS VM ink) on my walls and found the 
glass to be a problem: Antireflex glass is not transparent enough

I have a framing book that mentions as an aside that it is created 
with an acid etching- and therefore they say it is not as archival as 
regular or conservation clear glass. Interestingly, anti-glare plexi 
doesn't have this problem- but my book says for papers that tend to 
flake, using plexi is a no no (static charge causes lots of dots to 
build up).

I'm just going by what my framing books say on the subject...

, 
reflex glass has way too much reflexions from various angles, the very 
best is without glass at all. 
> 
> What does this mean for the longevity of a) the print and b) of the 
passepartout. It is a normal (dry) living room, no direct sun.

I did some tests where I put two test strips in a light -tight box. 
One was sprayed with Lumijet Imageshield (3 coats). there was a 
difference in the "warming" of the strips after variously, one to five 
weeks, depending on the ink (Piezo or MIS FS, VM) and moreso on the 
paper (EAM seemed the most stable). In all cases the unsprayed strip 
was noticably warmer. I didn't compare either to a freshly printed 
strip as a control however.

Humidity ranged from 30-40%RH, temperature from about 66 degrees f to 
81 degrees f.


 
> 
> Would a kind of "anti UV" spray be useful?

For me on all the papers I tested it certainly did whether in the 
window or the box.

  Do you recommend to put 
the prints behind glass in any way?

I now use conservation clear glass. I figure I can use all the help I 
can get. A nice frame will also help seal out pollutants, etc. There 
is a paper on lightfastness of color prints which applies a lot to b&w 
prints in the files section of this list that I submitted quite some 
time ago. It is well worth the read.
Jim H.

> 
> Thanks for answering, 
> 
> Bernhard
> 
> 
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on 7/4/2002 7:00 AM, DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com at
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> Message: 25
> Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 15:58:36 +0200
> From: Bernhard.Schuerlein@...
> Subject: Print behind glass or not?
> 
> Hello, 
> I started to hang b&w prints (MIS VM ink) on my walls and found the glass to
> be a problem: Antireflex glass is not transparent enough, reflex glass has way
> too much reflexions from various angles, the very best is without glass at
> all. 
> 
> What does this mean for the longevity of a) the print and b) of the
> passepartout. It is a normal (dry) living room, no direct sun.
> 
> Would a kind of "anti UV" spray be useful?  Do you recommend to put the prints
> behind glass in any way?
> 
> Thanks for answering,
> 
> Bernhard
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

 
if they are prints of your own work then I would hang them glassless.  The
only risk is that you might want to reprint them in the future, or replace
them with a fresh image.  And if you're printing on textured paper, part of
that beautiful paper texture is lost behind the glass. Why not show it off?


-Bruce

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