We investigate the coating of a glass plate with silica colloids by a dip coating method in
presence of evaporation. We show experimentally that the deposed quantity plotted versus
plate velocity V exhibits a minimum, in agreement with a simple argument developed by us
in a previous, theoretical paper. This minimum corresponds to a crossover between the well-
known Landau–Levich regime observed at higher plate velocity and a less well-known
regime at lower plate velocity where the deposit is formed directly at the contact line. This …