Mark Cassino wrote:
>ann sanfedele wrote: > > >>Those are lovely, Mark - >>the color one reminds me a lot of Robert Glen Ketchum.'s stuff. >> >> > >Thanks Ann - I'm honored by the comparison (but have a long ways to go >to get to that point...) > Well there is one photo that puts you there anyway:) > > >>I THINK the font you are using is the same one I used for this >>lady's jewelery shop but I can't find it again now - having forgotten >>how to extract the list of font examples (I used to know stuff) >>Do you know the name of it? >> >>here is her page with my banner (and photos) >>http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=72339 >> >> > >Hmmm - I'm using tempus sans ITC. I don't think it's the same font - I >just typed "made" in it and the letters don't touch - with the font you >used the letters manage to stream togehter. > I did the same - no not the same font... > > >>Btw - she is a teacher trying to peddle her original jewelry designs - >>hope she sells a lot so she will be back for more photos. >> >> > >It looks like nice stuff - hopefully she'll be back. The website banner >is nice too! > I think her stuff is lovely, I took one pair of earrings for partial payment for a present for a friend I dont wear any jewelry myself anymore except one ring... and I never had my ears piereced - fortunately, it kept me from being too tempted by them :) >>and how archival is Enhanced Matte from Epson? Why did they change it >>from "Archival" ? >> >> > >I wonder the same thing. I use the Enhanced matte for day to day >printing and for mono prints. For color I use the Premium Semigloss >(which seems to be more of a plastic sheet than paper.) > >I'm not sure how 'archival" either the Archival Matte or Enhanced Matte >papers are. Epson talks about how color fast they are and I can confirm >that the colors from the the archival Epson printers I use - the 2000p >and 2200 - seems to hold up for a long time. I have prints on hand that >have been out in the open for several years and I see no signs of fading >or color shift. > >BUT - to be archival a paper has to be at least acid free and preferably > buffered against the inevitable atmospheric acids it encounters. As >the years clock by I'm beginning to see a tanning to some of the >Enhanced and Archival matte prints I have on hand. These are not the >ones matted and bagged - those seem fine. But rather, prints stored in >the open air. the portions of the paper exposed to the air seems most >subject to this effect. So I wonder about the archival qualities WRT >acidity. > >FWIW - I've been moving toward the water color paper for many prints >(the moon set image has only been presented in water color paper) and >plan to move to the fine art papers for future prints. > >For landscapes I've gone to larger prints (in the 34 x 26 inch range) >printed on a Chromira (which uses regular photo paper - the lab I work >with uses Kodak Endura.) The landscapes are shot on the 6x7 since there >is so much scrubby detail in them. > > >>and while I'm answering questions,,, "'why can't a mouse swallow a >>streetcar?." >> >> > >There are no more street cars? > >Cheers - > >MCC > > I guess you guys don't know the same old folksongs I do... I actually forget what the response in the song is - but it was a cute song of a child asking all sorts of impossible questions that only children seem to dream up - I just threw it out to see who else knew the song and Odetta singing it. ann > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
