Digital BW, The Print

scrber wrote:

>
>One final thought...  What about that 'glosseriser' or whatever the 
>heck they call it.  The clear 'laquer' layer that comes with the new 
>ultraglossy inkset.
>Could this not be used for the spare ink position in the 4000 and 
>leave us in the wonderful position where we don't have to spray or 
>worry about bronzing.  Thinking out loud though, how do you control 
>it?  Not with curves thats for sure.  Still depends on whether they 
>will support the ultraglossy inkset and provide the relavent driver 
>interface I guess - still, a possibility right?
>
>  
>
It's driver controlled and user overridable to some extent..

http://www.photo-i.co.uk/News/Nov03/Epsondata.htm

Now, it could be conceivably used with a RIP in the 4000 or:

keep in mind that EPSON is already going to have a dual channel CMYK 
version of the printer for sale as well.. That conceivably requires a 
different driver,

It's not out of the round of possibility therefore to foresee EPSON 
releasing a driver or version of the 4000 that could use the Hi Gloss UC 
inks,,

However, the gloss optimizer works inversely to the way you envision 
it..  It gets laid down on areas of little ink coverage to increase 
gloss..  Since bronzing is the result of heavy ink loads, not low ink 
loads, it likely would not be of much help (unless we want to bronze the 
entire image).. Although, who knows?

 
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