Signing Epson PL Paper

[Kevin Klazek]

How do people using Epson premum luster paper sign your prints? Pencil does not seem to work. A Sharpie is too bold IMO and I am told fades to purple after some time.

Thanks

[Paul Butzi]

Pigma (tm) pens (made by Sakura) work nicely. I have a set of Pigma Micron pens in various widths from .005mm to .8mm, all in black.

www.gellyroll.com/products/pens/pigmamicron/pigmamicron.html (http://www.gellyroll.com/products/pens/pigmamicron/pigmamicron.html)

Sakura make a lot of nice pens, including those spiffy metallic Gellyroll rollerball pens and markers with calligraphic nibs, etc.

[Ken Cravillion]

Ditto what Paul said.



Landscape Photography (http://www.kgcphoto.com)

[M Brian Mills]

I have found that the MicroPerm (also by Sakura) are the best for me. I did a test with a print and took it to an architecture store and tried all of the pens on it. The MicroPerm were the only ones that dried instantly (no smearing) and have proved to be the most permanent as well.

[Bill Smith]

Why would you sign an inkjet print?
It is NOT handmade.
It is.......afterall, just an inkjet print.

[Kevin Klazek]

Paul, thanks for tip (no pun intended). The Pigma works great.

Bill, I must have missed that rule about only signing handmade work...I guess you only sign contact prints (the only true hand made print) and not optically enlarged silver prints which like inkjet prints, relies on a machine.

It is a good thing we don't all have the same rule book!

[Michael J. Kravit]

Billy boy wrote:
"Why would you sign an inkjet print? It is NOT handmade. It is.......afterall, just an inkjet print."

Man you crack me up.

[flagjoe]

The pneumatic nailgun is to the hammer what digital is to photography. Different tool getting the same job done a little quicker and less messy (no bloody thumbs). If you still use film and chemistry as I did for many years, good for you -- you're keeping an old art form alive -- kudos. But I suspect many of you "film guys" now scan your negs and print them with pigments. So, yeah. I sign my "just" digital prints too.

[bvstaples]

I don't sign prints anymore. No one seemed to care about my signature, it was the image that attracted them. And it's not like I'm going to be some major artist when I'm dead and gone. My "signed prints" won't command more money. And beside, when I'm dead and gone, I probably won't care much anyway.

If they need some other proof that it's my print, they can extract the blood, sweat, and tears and do a DNA test.

My dos centavos...

Brian

[Jeffrey Sipress]

I sign the mats. I rarely let go of a print that is not matted. But in reality, Brian is 100% correct. I ain't famous, and never will be.