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From: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 23:40:57 +1200
Bob wrote
> 
> Okay, so for a month now I've been locked in hand-to-hand combat with 
> Epson Ultrasmooth Fine Art Paper. It's a mother-beautiful paper, but 
> finicky as hell, at least from my point of view. I have spots. They  won't
> be on the print when it comes out of the printer. They won't be  on the
> print when it sits outgassing under a sheet of sketch paper.  They won't
> be on the print when it's slipped into the mat. But when  the glass goes
> on and I hold up the print for final inspection before  sealing the frame,
> THERE THEY ARE!!!!!!
> 
> And they won't brush off. (I say they, but sometimes it's only one.) 
> Which leads me to believe they're tiny flecks in the paper which have 
> come off revealing the white beneath, and thus there's nothing to  brush
> off. Now, the tricky part is that they are virtually invisible  from any
> viewing distance greater than the length of this  photographer's nose
> (which some might say is a prodigious distance. <g>)
> 
> Those of you who regularly do exhibition prints. How anal are you  
> about tiny spots on your prints under glass? My wife tells me that if 
> they are not visible from the proper viewing distance, they are not 
> visible. But somehow I can't buy that. If I can see them, they aren't 
> supposed to be there. Currently, I've got an 8x20-inch print that's on 
> its fourth run because of spotting. One one of them, the first one, I  saw
> the spot right off. On the subsequent two, I brushed the paper  before
> putting in printer. The spots were not there until the print  was in the
> frame.
> 
> On the fourth, I've tried Premier Art's spray, thinking it might help 
> keep those flecks of inked paper in place. But I won't know until I  try
> to frame it up again tomorrow or the next day.
> 
> Did I mention each one of those sheets cost a gooch less than $4?
> 
> So, Chris, Ken, Chuck et alia, any good dust stories, and  
> remedies . . . ?
> 
> --Bob Whitmire
> www.bobwhitmire.com

 Bob, have you tried washing the glass?

I have found that some glass is coated with oils or something which make a 
real mess of a print.

Not always easy to remove.

Brian
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