The Image Science Retouching Kit is designed to be used with inkjet prints made with pigment inks.  (It will probably work ok with dye based prints as well, but the best match will be with pigment inks of course).

The main use of the kit is to retouch small spots on prints, generally white dots that occur because dust or fibres was on the paper when printed and, once this dust was printed over, it falls off the print, leaving behind a white dot of unprinted area within your image.  Note that this usually occurs quite soon after the print is made, but occasionally occurs long after the actual printing.

It is needlessly wasteful, both from a cost and environmental perspective, to abandon a large print due to one tiny imperfection and retouching (AKA 'spotting') has a very long history in the image making world - anyone who has spent and time at all in a darkroom, for example, would have encountered spotting inks on a regular basis.

The kit contains:

• 10 Genuine Epson Ultrachrome HDR Inks in tightly lidded plastic tubes (approximately 1ml per tube, or about enough ink of each colour to cover an entire  A4 page!).
• Extra plastic tubes for mixing and storage of any colours you might want to keep.
• Robert Wade Taklon 000 size brush - a premium artist's brush with a small, firm but sufficiently yielding synthetic tip for precise placement of the inks.
• Pipettes to handle the ink.
• All of this stored in a tube holder/box that you can use as a working platform when mixing etc.
• (Your brushes and pipettes are under the tray in the box).
• Instructions for best use.

About the inks

The inks in this kit are genuine Epson inks, recovered from cartridges destined for landfill or recycling (where the waste ink is removed and disposed of before the plastic is recycled).  So these kits are a great way to use what would otherwise just be wasted materials.  One kit will last a very long time if used only for retouching small spots - with ink, it's very important to remember that a little goes a long way.  If you handle the actual ink itself, do remember to use gloves as the glycol base might irritate your skin.

We use the latest Epson UltraChrome HDR inks which have the widest mixable gamut of any inkjet printer inkset - you can use these inks on ANY pigment ink print, though, not just ones made on Epson printers.

Instructions

Instructions on how to get the best results from this retouching kit can be found here.