Digital BW, The Print

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: ncm 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 8:34 PM
  Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Display Prints Without Glass!


  Tyler,

  >Just a quick note. I've framed Piezo prints only behind plexi at this
  >point. It's a toss-up, some of the sumptuous surface 
  >quality is lost, but they definitely pick up apparent density range.

  That's what the general consensis seems to be, but it wasn't my 
  experience...but I used glass, not plexi. I used Torchon paper for this 
  show which does give very deep blacks and I found the prints lost 
  something behind glass - in the deep velvet blacks of the original image, 
  that hard to define three dimensional quality and in the subtleties of 
  tone, not to mention paper surface characteristics. I dunno. One of the 
  advantages of Piezo printing is the possibility to use fine art papers 
  and not just what is available (less and less) for darkroom use, meaning 
  that the physical print itself gains more weight (pun intended) as a fine 
  art object. Of course it is mainly the image that counts, but why have 
  folks over the centuries printed/written/drawn on a wide variety of 
  papers if the substrate too isn't involved in the artistic endeavor?

  As I mentioned, I have no experience with plexi but glass seems to me to 
  detract from the prints, not add anything positive.

  Cheers,

  Nina

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