I appreciate all the responses I've had to my question. I think I realize what my problem is. Where I'm relying on somebody else buying my supplies and conserving money any place possible, I don't buy the HP new cartridges. I buy all my supplies from Amazon.com and the ink cartridges are refills where, as somebody mentioned earlier, might not be compatible with the HP photo paper. Unfortunately, I do not have the financial means to try different inks and papers.
I think my solution to this is to continue using the 67# plain paper and find a way to gloss-cote the cars after assembly. The aircraft and sci-fi I've built look right without any finish. I did like the solution of spraying with the artists spray. Which brand of photo-paper seems to work best? The only brand I've tried is HP but I've heard some builders recommend Canon. Brian "Spend some quality time with a child...build a model together." ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Hairston" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 6:39:59 PM Subject: RE: [Papermodels II 45863] Which paper to use. I understood the issue to be the coating on the paper. The coating on the paper must have sufficient porosity for the ink to penetrate through to the paper beneath the surface. That can be solved by changing the ink to one with smaller color particles, or change to a paper wither greater porosity. You cannot change the ink without changing the printer so change the paper. I have had paper that simply would not take the ink at all to paper that would appear to never dry. I changed papers several times. Ilford works for me. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Hairston Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 10:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Papermodels II 45860] Which paper to use. You’ll have to sort around and try several Photo papers Many are not compatible wilt all inks. Try Ilford. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bribrack Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 10:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Papermodels II 45859] Which paper to use. I'm fairly new to the paper modeling hobby. I've built some sci-fi, one 1/72 and two 1/32 aircraft and one 1/18 car. All of these I've built from card stock. Recently, I decided to step it up and try assembling on photo paper but didn't have very good results. I have an HP Deskjet 5440 photo printer and was using HP glossy photo paper. My issue was that even after about a day, even though the ink was dry to the touch, it still came off just from the slightest touch like paper moving on top of it of accidently with a fingertip. Needless to say, I've become quite dissappointed with this type of assembly as it isn't as much fun. My question is, for cars, is there a safe spray gloss finish I can apply after assembly? Thanks Brian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/papermodels/-/5-YGfJsJoFEJ . To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/papermodels?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/papermodels?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/papermodels?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/papermodels?hl=en.
