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Subject: Re: [OM] Spots (OT)
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 07:56:11 -0400
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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