Digital BW, The Print

Well, I guess I'm going to find out since I ordered a small bottle 
of it last night. I'm hoping it will serve as an overspray for matte 
paper. If there is no differential glossing then an even coat might 
bring a matte paper up to a soft sheen of some flavor, and even if 
it doesn't do that, it might increase DMax, or at least serve to 
protect the print surface? We shall see....

Steve K

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "koloshor" 
<wiz@n...> wrote:
> 
> --- 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.