Digital BW, The Print

My apologizes if this has already been discussed but I'm curious if 
anyone has experience coating prints simply to protect them from 
handling. I am printing a series of duotone images on a 2200 and Epson 
Archival Matte. The end result will be "bound" into a book of sorts 
and I'm thinking about trying to coat them. I don't have any 
particular need to change their dmax or appearance and I don't want to 
(significantly) degrade their permanence or stability, but I'd like to 
protect them as best as possible from handling. Any suggestions or 
experience?

Thanks

Art Maples
art@...
www.duotone.com

great pictures and story...!

> Art Maples
> art@...
> www.duotone.com

tim


PS - is that a Canham or a Gandolfi? or something older in your bio pic.
Where you shooting LF for the above?

Thank you very much, Tim. It is actually a Deardorff. The previous 
owner was a retired comercial shooter who decided to redo the camera 
with stove black. Oh well, what can you do? 

That series of images was shot with the Deardorff and 4x5 IR and Tmax. 
I have not tried to print any of that work to digitally, although I am 
interested in experimenting. Some of the shots are pseudo-panoramic 
and my darkroom couldn't handle the size prints I wanted to make. 
Eventually I want to see how close I can match the tone of a digital 
print with those heavily toned gelatin-silvers, but being a newbie to 
digital printing I'm going to set my sights a lot lower for the 
moment.

Art Maples
art@...
www.duotone.com

>  great pictures and story...!

> 
> PS - is that a Canham or a Gandolfi? or something older in your bio pic.
> Where you shooting LF for the above?

if the concern is just handling - clear archival envelopes
frank


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Art Maples" <art@d...> 
wrote:
> My apologizes if this has already been discussed but I'm curious if 
> anyone has experience coating prints simply to protect them from 
> handling. I am printing a series of duotone images on a 2200 and 
Epson 
> Archival Matte. The end result will be "bound" into a book of sorts 
> and I'm thinking about trying to coat them. I don't have any 
> particular need to change their dmax or appearance and I don't want 
to 
> (significantly) degrade their permanence or stability, but I'd like 
to 

> protect them as best as possible from handling. Any suggestions or 
> experience?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Art Maples
> art@d...
> www.duotone.com

sorry, I just re-read your post - my suggestion of sleeves to protect 
them from handling isn't appropriate as you're binding the prints  
into a book -apologies.
Frank


> if the concern is just handling - clear archival envelopes
> frank
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Art Maples" <art@d...> 
> wrote:
> > My apologizes if this has already been discussed but I'm curious 
if 
> > anyone has experience coating prints simply to protect them from 
> > handling. I am printing a series of duotone images on a 2200 and 
> Epson 
> > Archival Matte. The end result will be "bound" into a book of 
sorts 
> > and I'm thinking about trying to coat them. I don't have any 
> > particular need to change their dmax or appearance and I don't 
want 
> to 
> > (significantly) degrade their permanence or stability, but I'd 
like 
> to 
> > protect them as best as possible from handling. Any suggestions 
or 

> > experience?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Art Maples
> > art@d...
> > www.duotone.com

Art,

<snip>

> Eventually I want to see how close I can match the tone of a digital
> print with those heavily toned gelatin-silvers, but being a newbie to
> digital printing I'm going to set my sights a lot lower for the
> moment.
>
Every thrown a slider with a football?

Don't set you sights lower.  Set them differently.  There are some 
aspects of silver prints that you will not duplicate.  However, there 
are also aspects of a digital print you will be challenged to reproduce 
in the darkroom.

Make the most of the medium you use.

Kevin (stating the obvious again) Gulstene