For those not familiar with the original article, I did a
4 part series on printing for my column on Renderosity.com
in the winter of 2003. All these articles are in the Past
Columns section of my website. This last article was a
study of Inkjet Receivers. Since this project is still on
going, I will keep updating it by date in this article. Right
now I am experimenting with PVA (Polyvinyl Acetate) substances.
I will add the results to the initial chart under updates.
However, I am only testing using the Generation Enhanced Inks
that I have used previously. These also are called Gen 4 inks
and are pigment inks whose range of color is very similar
to the Epson inks for the 1270/1280 printer.
Paper, Coating, and/or Ink |
1270 |
1280 |
Comments |
Epson heavy Weight Paper and Epson Ink |
Cyan +2 Magenta -8 |
Cyan +10 |
|
Epson Heavy Weight Paper |
Enhanced Generations Ink (GE) Magenta -3
Yellow +5 |
Epson Ink same as above |
|
Watercolor paper and Rabbit Skin Glue |
GE Ink Cyan -5 Yellow +5 |
Epson Ink Cyan 0, Magenta 0, Yellow 0 |
Rabbit Skin Glue darkens any image |
Watercolor paper and inkAID matte
precoat |
GE Yellow +5 |
Epson Ink Cyan +3 |
Epson Ink print is Darker than GE ink print |
Watercolor paper and inkAID Semi-Gloss |
Yellow +5 |
Same comments and settings as directly above
(Cyan +3) |
GE inkAID semi-gloss print is lighter
than the GE matte print |
Watercolor paper and inkAID Gloss
alone |
Yellow + 5 |
Magenta -5, Cyan +5 |
With one coat similar to the semi-gloss |
Bristol Vellum and inkAID Gloss with
Adhesive |
The prints worked better with the Epson
inks than with the Enhanced Generations inks probably
because of the extreme glossy surface. |
Magenta -3, Yellow +5 |
|
Watercolor paper and inkAID
Gloss with adhesive |
|
|
I didn't like this combination
with the watercolor paper. The roughness of this paper
was not suited for a very glossy finish. |
*Watercolor paper with Talas Jade 711 (a
PVA product) |
|
NA |
Didn't work. Contained areas
of reticulation. |
*Watercolor paper with Olympic Latex PVA
Primer |
|
NA |
Didn't work. Contained areas
of reticulation. |
*Watercolor paper with Gamblin PVA Size |
|
NA |
Didn't work. Contained areas
of reticulation. |
*Watercolor paper with PVA Laminating Glue |
|
NA |
Didn't work. Contained areas
of reticulation. |
*Watercolor paper with Elmer's
Glue (a PVA product) |
|
NA |
Didn't work. Contained
areas of reticulation. |
*None of these PVA products were meant to be used as coatings.
This was an experiment because there were various discussions
of using PVA instead of Rabbit Skin Glue but for other purposes,
not for inkjet printing.
The results show that the inkAID products or the Rabbit
Skin Glue are all that I can find that coat paper successfully
and act as ink receivers. As of this time, I have only worked
with papers.
If I find more information on this subject or related subjects,
I will update this article so, if you are interested, keep
checking back to either this site or my other site of Ephemeralvisions.