Digital BW, The Print

Steve

Awesome!  I guess it works as promised and can be fired by a non R800
printer albeit with a little refinement.



> From: Steven Karafyllakis <steve@...>
> 
> 
> 
> Hello All;
> 
> I received the bottle of MIS Gloss Optimizer (GLOP) this past
> Thursday and have some results to report that anyone using UC inks
> on RC papers will find very interesting.
> 
> The first tests were done with MIS UC-clones in a 7600, with Eboni
> K. First tests indicate that the GLOP is NOT compatible with EBONI-
> it not only doesn't help it in any way, but a heavy enough coat
> causes the ink to bead and craze and generally look very ugly.  I
> then took out the Eboni and replaced it with MIS Universal K, an ink
> I was not very pleased with when I first tried it. I will probably
> wind up using with MIS PK. As my final solution for RC papers.
> 
> The first quick test I did was to put some in a cheap ($20.00)
> Badger air brush and spray it on a couple different papers, just to
> see if it was worth the effort to proceed.  Results: GLOP does less
> than nothing for matte papers-it actually hurts the DmaX a bit.

Not surprising as the issue that it is meant to treat is the lack of
penetration into RC media by the pigment inks.


 
> Well, 'in for a penny, in for a pound' I thought, and repeated the
> procedure with my 1280, which up until now has had nothing but dyes
> in it, and has very little wear. The nozzle check was good the first
> time, so I overprinted several pages of test images I had prepared
> the night before. The papers I tested were:
> 
> Epson Premium Glossy
> Ilford Classic Gloss
> Epson Premium Semi-matte-250
> Proof-line Photo glossy DP
> Oriental Graphica Lustre
> Proof-line Semi-matte/DP
> Proof-line Photo Lustre
> 
> The 'image' was a simple 100% black rectangle applied through
> the 'color controls' setting with only the black ink, at 1440 dpi
> and high speed on.

You talk about "as an overcoat" at the end of your post.  So you printed the
image and then ran it through for gloss or did the gloss go on as part of
the weave?

MIS have pulled the gloss off their site.  I look forward to hen the sell
their version 2....

Steve