Digital BW, The Print

Steve;

I just checked the MIS website; the gloss optimizer is still there. 
Did you talk to them and were told it was going to be pulled? I hope 
not!  My thanks to Roy for the quick fix on the 7600/9600 QTR; not 
only is it running, but the 2880 dpi setting is working too! So now 
I've tested the GLOP with a UC B&W image also, though I sprayed it 
on rather than using the printer. A very light coat did wonders for 
both the RC and Glossy papers. I think I'm in love with the glossy 
look, it gets rid of that hard plastic shine and looks much more 
acceptable as a fine-art gallery print! I hope MIS don't screw it up 
by making it super shiny!

Steven Karafyllakis


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale 
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
> 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@s...>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 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