Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven Karafyllakis" <steve@s...> wrote:
> 
> Plaese keep us posted! I think an old printer with the optimiser in 
> the K position might work-print black only, and take the gloss out 
> to the edge after the print is dry and signed. I have a partially 
> defunct 1270 that's sitting around just waiting for this!

That won't work. The GLOP isn't an overspray, like a print varnish. It's an "in between spray" that only gets laid down on lightly inked (or uninked) areas of the print. Your second printer would need to be able to perfectly march the alignment of the first printer. It would have to be able to lay GLOP precisely into lightly inked tiny details, like hair.

If you want to print B&W and Color with GLOP on both, the way to do it is to get a full RIP (or modify QTR for color use) and put the GLOP in the light cyan slot. The printer doesn't "lean" on light cyan the way it does light magenta. You can get a pretty good image using lightly dithered, full strength cyan. You'd have to build new B&W QTR curves that replaced the light cyan with full strength cyan.