Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale 
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
Steven, once again: I can't put the gloss optimizer in the 7600, I 
need to keep it intact for standard color UC prints. All I need to 
do right now, is change over from MIS LK to Epson LK ink, to see if 
that fixes the re-bronzing after dry-down that I get with some 
papers. When I put glop in a big machine, it will be the 7500, which 
now has UT-1 inks in it. 
> If you are using the 7600 and UC inks then use the M or C slot.  
Tweaking
> the QTR curve is not hard (Carl has given me a few lessons - 
thanks for your
> patience Carl!).  Are you using the standard (ie provided) curves 
or your
> own?  What platform? 

I'm using the provided EEM curves so far, and they are working quite 
nicely on the 7600. My platform is WinXP.

 BTW I forgot to respond to an earlier point you made: the heavy 
glop coat does show a color tint, more on some papers than others. 
It shows a lot on the non-Epson papers, barely at all on PGPP and 
just a little on the E semi-gloss. Hopefully the Epson LK ink will 
bronze less, and allow me to cut back on the glop load- not only is 
it showing a bit, I'm going through it very quickly.

> BTW I took a walk through your website today - very nice stuff 
(and good
> links section)

Thanks, Steven.


Steve Karafyllakis
> 
> 
> > From: Steven Karafyllakis <steve@s...>
> > Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:55:45 -0000
> > To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Digital BW] More on Glop overcoating
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Sorry Steve, I guess I haven't been clear enough: I'm running the
> > glop in a 1280 with the Epson driver, but printing the UC inks 
in a
> > 7600 with QTR. I need to flush the LK in the 7600-without wasting
> > the equivalent amount in all the other colors. Changing the K 
ink is
> > not as expensive since you can do so with out flushing all the 
other
> > lines, but the rest of the inks are a different story.
> > 
> > I'm taking this approach rather than blending it in for a couple
> > reasons, not the least of which is -if it works, in the end I 
will
> > need to be able to use it with the 7600, but retain color 
printing
> > capability. I simply can't commit that machine to some exotic
> > combination of greyscale inks. In all likelyhood, if it does work
> > well enough, the glop will wind up in the 7500, either in the K
> > channel, or blended in through one of the other channels as Carl
> > Scoffield is doing with his 2200. I'm just not ready to commit to
> > that without knowing I have a viable functioning system and a 
better
> > option than the matte ink on watercolor papers. So far, as you 
can
> > tell from my previous posts, the execution has been problematic 
and
> > inconsistent-but the results! the prints I have that are flawless
> > absolutely kick ass, pardon my Greek (I can say that, being Greek
> > myself). Well worth a bit more effort to work out the bugs.
> > 
> > Thanks for the info, I'll work it out as soon as the Epson cart 
gets
> > to me & post again on the results with Epson LK instead of MIS.
> > 
> > Steve Karafyllakis