Digital BW, The Print

Steve
Sounds like you are going to try my crazy idea. I have emailed MIS 
and am awaiting a reply. Previous post suggest that this is maybe a 
little more complex than I thought. If its not an overspray then 
things get to complex for me. However when I emailed MIS I came 
across an article about using their gloss optimizer as a second 
coating, ie putting a print through a R800 a second time when dry. 
Now they pointed out that their gloss optimizer is different to 
Epsons and using Epsons this way would not work. Hopefully MIS will 
be able to give me an update on their experiments. 

However it sounds like it won't damage your printer.

Good luck.

Peter

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven 
Karafyllakis" <steve@s...> wrote:
> 
> 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.