Digital BW, The Print

Hard to believe only two weeks have gone by and no remembers I just 
reported on this issue;  The MIS R800 gloss optimizer works quite 
well in a cartridge, and does an excellent job of eliminating 
bronzing and increasing Dmax, without the mess and noxious fumes of 
the canned products and lacquers. It does not provide quite the 
physical protection of Printshield, but is nonetheless quite 
worthwhile for the benefits it does provide. Keeping some in a cart 
and switching for batch coating would be fairly easy, though it 
would require flushing the K head with Windex or something similar 
before the coating so no K ink mixes into the coating. Even if that 
doesn't work for you, using a $20.00 model-making airbrush and 
spraying it on is very easy, the coating is easy to get on evenly, 
in one or two light coats. One big caveat: This stuff works well on 
semi-matte, lustre, and glossy RC PAPERS, but not on matte, and not 
with Eboni ink. It does fine with UC inks and the PK or even 
MIS 'Universal K'.  If anyone was to see a sample of it, email me 
off-line. I'll send out a few for the price of postage.

Steve Karafyllakis

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Kale" 
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
> 
> I, like many others, have had all sorts of difficulties spraying 
RC paper prints. (I have tried 
> Lyson Print Guard which people tend to believe is the same thing 
as Print Shield.)  I really 
> don't think it works very well and is horrible on images with 
great expanses of deep black 
> - read mottled blacks and trapped dust.  But the recent glop 
dicussion begs the following:
> 
> Could someone like MIS develop a Print Shield like coating and 
instead of putting it in an 
> aerosol can put it in a refillable ink cartridge?  Our printers 
are already capable of precise 
> spraying of ink, how about a protective coating?  Any RIP/driver 
could be used to "spray" 
> an already printed image.
> 
> Thoughts?