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A question about matting

A question about matting

2004-04-10 by Don

I have been wrestling lately with matching the color (warmth) of my
matting board when I print on a natural finish art paper.  I never
seem to be able to find the proper match. Either the matte is too
white or too pink or whatever to match good natural paper with no
optical brighteners.

Am I too picky here?  Have any of you conquered this problem?

I know I know, too many loaded questions here, but thanks for any advice.


Ol' Don in Broken Arrow

Re: A question about matting

2004-04-10 by Tom Andrews

Hi Don,

I have a pretty good match using Moab Entrada Natural paper (which doesn't have 
optical brightners) and Westminster Rag Board from Light Impressions.  Cheers,

Tom Andrews
http://www.wildlandart.com
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> I have been wrestling lately with matching the color (warmth) of my
> matting board when I print on a natural finish art paper.  I never
> seem to be able to find the proper match. Either the matte is too
> white or too pink or whatever to match good natural paper with no
> optical brighteners.
> 
> Am I too picky here?  Have any of you conquered this problem?
> 
> I know I know, too many loaded questions here, but thanks for any advice.
> 
> 
> Ol' Don in Broken Arrow

Re: A question about matting

2004-04-10 by Tom Andrews

Forgot to mention that the Westminster Board is their Bright White choice.  

> Hi Don,
> 
> I have a pretty good match using Moab Entrada Natural paper (which 
doesn't have optical brightners) and Westminster Rag Board from Light 
Impressions.  Cheers,
> 
> Tom Andrews
> http://www.wildlandart.com
> 
> 
> > I have been wrestling lately with matching the color (warmth) of my
> > matting board when I print on a natural finish art paper.  I never
> > seem to be able to find the proper match. Either the matte is too
> > white or too pink or whatever to match good natural paper with no
> > optical brighteners.
> > 
> > Am I too picky here?  Have any of you conquered this problem?
> > 
> > I know I know, too many loaded questions here, but thanks for any 
advice.
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> > 
> > 
> > Ol' Don in Broken Arrow

RE: [Digital BW] A question about matting

2004-04-11 by Ken Carney

Ol' Don: If you will go with 100% rag museum board, your life will be much
simpler (only one board to order, such as Westminster or Alpha ArtCare).
The 100% white board enhances light instead of absorbing it, such as an
off-color white might do.  If you are not dry-mounting, try a window mat of
museum board with a good-sized margin of the unprinted paper showing, say
1/2" on the top and sides and 1 1/2" on the bottom or so.  The eye will make
a transition from the white museum board to the base paper to the image...
It helps if the matt is somewhat larger than the image, say a 16x20 matt
assemblage for an 10x15 image size.  Hope this helps.

Regards,

  --Ken Carney
    www.kencarney.com  
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don [mailto:elixirs4me@...] 
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 10:04 AM
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> Subject: [Digital BW] A question about matting
> 
> I have been wrestling lately with matching the color (warmth) 
> of my matting board when I print on a natural finish art 
> paper.  I never seem to be able to find the proper match. 
> Either the matte is too white or too pink or whatever to 
> match good natural paper with no optical brighteners.
> 
> Am I too picky here?  Have any of you conquered this problem?
> 
> I know I know, too many loaded questions here, but thanks for 
> any advice.
> 
> 
> Ol' Don in Broken Arrow
> 
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Re: [Digital BW] A question about matting

2004-04-11 by sp2

Hi Don,

  I print on Hahnemeuhle 308 which is slightly warm.  The matte I have 
found to be neutral and white is Bainbridge8655 Pure White 4Ply 
Alpharag Artcare.  It is a beautiful archival smooth white board.  It 
works with color as well.

Ashley


On Saturday, April 10, 2004, at 10:04 AM, Don wrote:

> I have been wrestling lately with matching the color (warmth) of my
> matting board when I print on a natural finish art paper.  I never
> seem to be able to find the proper match. Either the matte is too
> white or too pink or whatever to match good natural paper with no
> optical brighteners.
>
> Am I too picky here?  Have any of you conquered this problem?
>
> I know I know, too many loaded questions here, but thanks for any 
> advice.
>
>
> Ol' Don in Broken Arrow
>
>


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Re: A question about matting

2004-04-12 by Don

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tom Andrews"
<tandrews@b...> wrote:
> Forgot to mention that the Westminster Board is their Bright White
choice.  
> 
> > Hi Don,
> > 
> > I have a pretty good match using Moab Entrada Natural paper (which 
> doesn't have optical brightners) and Westminster Rag Board from Light 
> Impressions.  Cheers,
> > 
> > Tom Andrews
> > http://www.wildlandart.com

Thanks Tom, I appreciate your suggestion.

Ol' Don in Broken Arrow

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