Digital BW, The Print

The Krylon Gloss spray I was referring to is called Preserve It! 
rather than Protect It! Interestingly, the spray had a different 
effect on PR than on the Illuminata Alphasmooth on which I had 
originally tried it. Both examples were color prints. On the 
Alphasmooth, after three light coatings, the print surface became 
somewhat glossy with an increase in richness in the color and light 
bronzing (unnoticeable unless you carefully tilt the print to see it) 
in the black and dark grey areas of the print; with PR, however, the 
print seems to become darker overall but remains matte. After the 
third application of spray splatter blotches started to appear.

Chris Hargens


 --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Hargens" 
<chargens@s...> wrote:
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven 
> Karafyllakis" <steve@s...> wrote:
> > 
> > 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. 
On 
> > semi-matte RC paper, with the eboni ink, any area that was pure 
> > Eboni was basically un-affected with a light coat, but any other 
> > area showed an increase in Dmax, an major improvement in the 
> clarity 
> > and depth of the image tones, and not even a hint of bronzing or 
> > differential glossing of the surface. Definitely worth pursuing 
> > further!
> 
> A few questions (for anyone). How does the GLOP compare to sprays 
> such as Print Shield or Print Guard? Could the Epson GLOP be 
removed 
> from a cart and applied as a spray. I ask this because I've 
> seen "compatible" GLOP carts sold at fairly low prices --
> http://www.inkjetcartridge.com/t054020.html
> Finally, I recently tried some Krylon Protect It! (gloss), using a 
> 2200 loaded with UC inks, including the matte black and printing on 
> _matte_ paper. It also has the effect of improving the depth and 
> clarity of image tones with no bronzing except in those areas of 
the 
> paper where the matte black was used. Perhaps with PK a uniform 
> effect would be obtained. Has anyone else tried this product? How 
> about on glossy paper?
> 
> Chris Hargens