Digital BW, The Print

The confusion here is my fault. I've been thinking about Print Shield 
mostly in terms of its ability to reduce/eliminate bronzing rather 
than what it does in protecting prints. For me, any protective 
coating for RC papers is probably not worth using if the bronzing 
problem is not addressed either through that coating or by some other 
means. For that reason I've been thinking about what might be the 
best way to apply glop -- if a spray application doesn't have 
problems with mottling, blotches, etc., then it may be the best route 
for someone, like me, who only owns a 2200 and doesn't want to go 
through the hazzle of filling and switching carts to coat. Again, as 
you point out Steve, this doesn't address the issue of protection. In 
this regard I suspect that carts loaded with nonwaterbased products 
with chemical properties similar to Printshield might damage the 
print head...just a feeling. That's why I'd be interested in hearing 
reviews of some of the other water-based inkjet coatings that are 
being used. 

Chris Hargens



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale 
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
> Steve
> 
> Read my original post again.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> > From: Steven Karafyllakis <steve@s...>
> > 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?
> > 
> > 
> >