High Quality Fine Art Ink Jet Paper (see also IRIS)

The principle of the continuous liquid ink jet process is precisely what the name implies: a steady stream of ink droplets formed at high rates is ejected from an orifice in the direction of the receptive medium. Those drops that are not meant to reach the substrate (the non-printing drops) are intercepted and recycled. The drops destined to form an image (the printing drops), on the other hand, are deflected in mid flight, thus passing by the interceptor and flying onwards to finally hit the substrate, forming an ink dot. Some systems deflect those drops that are to be recycled and allow printing drops to pass. The rate of droplets issued from the nozzle is controlled by a vibrating piezoelectric crystal that can form hundreds of thousands of individual droplets each second.

Other Given Names: IRIS, giclée Dates: Contribute to this category! Colorant: Contribute to this category! Medium: uncoated 100% rag paper similar or the same as watercolor paper, various degrees of weight, some types are specially sized for ink jet applications Surface: very matte and rough Inscriptions: Contribute to this category! Formats: Contribute to this category! Image Quality: the rough fibrous surface "swallows" the dots and diminishes the printing pattern to emphasize effect of continuous tone, single dots are hard to distinguish from each other. Applications: fine art printing and reproduction of artwork on large format contone printers

IRIS: Somerset Velvet (100% cotton paper, specially sized, uncoated, continuous ink jet), 30 x magn.