Digital BW, The Print

On 7/13/13 3:27 PM, "pdesmidt tds.net" <pdesmidt@...> wrote:

>By "coated" do you mean papers that perform best with Photo Black, often
>called "glossy" papers, or do you mean papers with an ink receptor
>coating,
>which includes papers like Photo Rag  and Epson's Hot Press Natural,
>papers
>which aren't glossy at all?

---Those are all coated papers. The surfaces are just different.


>Arches water color paper doesn't have an ink receptor coating

---That is not entirely true. The sizing acts partially as an ink
receptor. The difference is that hundreds of years of experience means
that the sizing is a known quantity, while the newer ink receptor coatings
are not.


>Theorizing that there might be a problem with various ink receptor
>coatings
>is not by itself evidence that there is indeed a problem.

---Of course not. However, printing on non-coated paper means that any
future problems from coatings cannot possibly affect those prints.


>For all we known the coating could lead to a better bond between the ink
>and the paper than that provided by non ink receptor coated paper.

---Highly unlikely. More likely is that the two very different substances,
which will almost certainly expand and contract at different rates over
time, will result in a weakening of adherence and possibly cracking of the
coating. I don't know this will happen, but with uncoated papers, it is
impossible.

Everyone has to follow their own path. Experience has taught me to be VERY
suspicious and conservative when it comes to photographic materials.


David Kachel

___________________

Artist-Photographer
Fine B&W Photographs

www.davidkachel.com
david@...

Gallery:
www.reddoorfinephotographs.com
director@...

PO Box  1893
Alpine, TX 79831
(432) 386-5787