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Subject: Re: [OM] Spots (OT)
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 08:04:22 -0400
I think Brian gave you a good lead.  Since it only shows up under glass 
(but the glass apparently doesn't touch the print due to the mat) it 
would seem logical that it's on the glass or somehow related.

Chuck Norcutt


Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I haven't a clue.  I'd start with Epson tech support
> <http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/SupportContacts.jsp>
> 
> Chuck Norcutt
> 
> 
> Bob Whitmire 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
>>
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