Digital BW, The Print

Steve

Read my original post again.

Steve


> From: Steven Karafyllakis <steve@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:38:20 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Coating prints-why not?
> 
> 
> 
> 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?
> 
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