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 Why coat your inkjet prints?
Well, there are many advantages - coatings provide protection from fingerprints, atmospheric pollutants, UV light, moisture, and help provide resistance to scuff marks on prints made with pigment inks. Further, Wilhelm Imaging, the only real authorities on the issue, indicate that coatings can ...
- Buying Guide to Papers for Dye Based Inkjet Printers
Dye based printers undoubtedly still offer the most classically photographic results from inkjet printers. The latest printers have extraordinarily wide colour gamuts, deep inky blacks, and fantastic saturation. The chief disadvantage is of course print longevity - however recent developments ...
- Inkjet paper surfaces
There is no real right and wrong with paper surfaces, and almost all surface types can produce excellent results. It really comes down to the image your are printing and the look you want to achieve. Gloss Papers have very smooth, highly reflective surfaces (that are prone to scratching). Inhe ...
- Optical Brighteners
Optical Brighteners (often referred to as OBs, or Fluorescent Whitening Agents - FWAs) are chemicals used in many contexts - for example, they are put into detergents to achieve brighter whites and stronger colours. Toothpaste is another common place they are found. OBs convert light through fl ...
- What is Rag?
Rag refers to cotton rag. That is, papers made from cotton fibres. The term is historical - originally cotton rag papers were made from waste cotton generated from the fashion ('rag') industry. These days most papers are made from plantation cotton, but the term lingers on.
- Gloss Differential on Inkjet Papers
Gloss differential is a visible difference in the glossy surface of a print across areas with different amounts of ink or between areas of the page printed on versus not printed on. It's not quite the same as bronzing (see above) but closely related and due to the same general issue of differin ...
- Bronzing on Inkjet Paper
Bronzing is an image defect that occurs with some inkjet printers and some papers. Earlier pigment inksets were the most well known culprits - the Epson 2000P was notorious, and the original Ultrachrome inkset had bronzing problems on gloss and semi-gloss papers. The new Ultrachrome K3 printers ...
- Introduction to Ilford Papers
Ilford is of course very well known from the traditional darkroom days, but in recent years Ilford have become one of the biggest players in the digital printing market as well - Ilford Gallerie Smooth Pearl is the best selling inkjet paper in the world today - and for good reason as it's an ex ...
- Introduction to Canson Infinity Papers
Canson Infinity is the brand name given to the new Digital Fine Art & Photo range crafted in the famous and ancient Canson and Arches mills. Canson Infinity offers you Museum Quality Fine Art & Photo Inkjet Papers and Canvas. Canson / Arches are two brands of a famous French paper company (Arjo ...
- Introduction to Harman Inkjet Papers
Harman are a relatively new name in the inkjet world (although as the owners of the Ilford darkroom paper business it's fair to say they've been in the photographic world for quite some time!). In 2007 the Harman Fibre Based Gloss Baryta Alumina paper is quite simply the hottest paper in the w ...
- Introduction to Museo Inkjet Papers
Formerly known as Crane Museo Inkjet PapersThe Museo inkjet range was developed by Crane papers - the largest fine art paper company in the US. The range conforms to the highest archival standards (as defined by both the Library of Congress and the ISO) - all 100% cotton rag, internally buffered ...
- Introduction to Hahnemühle Papers
(Very often also spelled as Hahnemuehle and pronounced as harn-eh-mulah!) Hahnemuhle enjoy a sterling reputation in the fine art inkjet world - and for good reason. They make a number of papers that are amongst the best in their class. Their core product - Photo Rag - is loved by thousands acro ...
- Inkjet paper substrates
Inkjet paper substrates can be broadly divided into three main types, and some papers are made from a mixture of types. Basically, the more cotton a paper has in it, the stronger it is. Cheaper papers are made from wood pulp. Plastic 'papers' are an emerging alternative, and are appearing in hi ...
- About fibre based and resin coated papers
The fundamental schism in the photographic paper world is between fibre based papers (dearly beloved of darkroom aficionados and fine art practioners) and resin coated (popular in the commercial domains). Inkjet paper has two key components - a substrate layer (the paper itself) and an ink recep ...
- Paper Size Tables
This is just a simple table of paper sizes for your convenience. Size Inches Millimeters (divided by 10 = cm) A4 11.7 by 8.5 297 by 210 A3 16.5 by 11.7 420 by 297 A3+ 19 by 13 483 by 329 And a more complete table in millimetres: A Series Formats B Series Formats C ...
- Ink receptive coatings
Coatings are applied to inkjet papers to make them more receptive to high ink loads - without them, the ink would bleed and sharp results and highly saturated colours would not be possible. Coatings also play a big role in the longevity of a print - better coatings offer more resistance to the ...
- Determining the printable side of cotton rag papers
This depends on your eye-sight a bit. If you're short sighted and/or have good abilities with close focusing, it's quite easy just to see the difference - one side is the raw fibers, the other side is slightly smoother, the coating being over the top of the fibers. However, this doesn't work fo ...
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