Digital BW, The Print

Jon Adams wrote:

>As a photographer who is weighing the option to sell
>photographs made from digital printers in lieu of the
>traditional "silver" based photographs, I consider the
>quality of the output from the current inkjet printers
>on the papers now available to be most worthy of
>selling. They look fabulous.
>
<snip>

>  So I am
>fishing to see if anyone can recommend a product such
>as a fixative spray of some sort or perhaps a better
>combination of ink and paper.
>  
>
Well,  given Jack Schultz's comments about outgassing and its effects, I 
would suggest curing the print first BEFORE doing anything else.... 
Spraying without curing first is likely to just be a mess.. (although 
the wicking in the Fine Art Paper might make it acceptable - I still 
would not recommend it)

Are you finding there is ruboff after they have "cured?"

As for a spray/coating, what you need is going to depend upon whether or 
not there is still ruboff after curing..

If there is, you'll need to review the posts on Mark Tucker's and 
others' success with coating...

If there isn't, Lyson Print Guard is probably the best bet for not 
changing the look and feel of the paper while protecting the print..

As regards a paper (I  assume  you want something similar to the Fine 
Art Velvet) which works in the 2200 without ruboff problems, I'll leave 
that to others.

The fact is the pigmented ink printing process is far from perfect, as 
you can see by the plethora of posts here, people are actively working 
to get closer though..  One tradeoff of sorts with the 2200 seems to be 
the need to let prints fully cure, etc..
Keith

 

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