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Re: [Digital BW] Re: More on Glop overcoating

2004-12-21 by Carl Schofield

On Dec 21, 2004, at 1:43 PM, Steven Karafyllakis wrote:

>> I've been doing these tests
>> with a custom inkset in my 2200 consisting of the MIS UT-FSN quad
> inks
>> plus the UT2 warm gray and sepia inks.  I use three QTR profiles
> for
>> neutral, carbon, and sepia toned prints.  The glop is in the black
>> cartridge slot
>
> Something like this in the 7500 would work for me, it would still
> allow me to overcoat the color & B&W 7600 ptints, while giving me a
> blended glop on this machine.
>
>> because no black ink is needed with these profiles (the
>> dark grays are sufficient to generate a dmax in the 2-2.2 range).
>
> Are you getting a good dmax on matte papers as well?

No, this only works with RC papers.  Need a black ink like Eboni and 
different profiles to use with the matte papers.

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