Digital BW, The Print

I was fooling around with different coating techniques when I came up 
with this way to get a glossy surface on EEM.

I airbrushed (coating rod may work too) a smooth generous coat of a 
Hydrocote/Flow Ayd mixture and dried it to the touch quickly with a 
hair dryer. Let the coating dry an additional 15 minutes or so and 
then put print on glass face up with a piece of typing paper (or 
poster paper if print is large) between it and the glass. With a 
rubber roller, roll on a sheet of waxed paper (the kind you get at 
the grocery store) covering the print. Roll hard making sure there 
are no wrinkles or bubbles, then immediately pull off waxed paper. 
Heat surface just a bit with hot air from the hair dryer again and 
you will have a nice glossy surface. Let dry normally.

The gloss I got using Satin Hydrocote using this technique is the 
same as the surface of regular Epson Photo Paper. Haven't tried 
Glossy Hydrocote.

I tried this identical technique except airbrushing to an "orange 
peel" surface consistancy before rolling and when done ended up with 
a surface like Epson Premium Luster.