Digital BW, The Print

Carl;

I didn't have anything from Ilford except Printasia glossy, which 
work failry well; Once Xmas is out of the way I'll put some glop in 
the 7500 and try the two you mentioned. It's good you're trying both 
methods; I'd be curious to know which looks the best in a couple 
days after they all dry properly.

Steve Karafyllakis

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield 
<scho@m...> wrote:
> I just did some more testing with glop on UC prints.  I printed a 
B&W 
> image on Epson Premium Semimatte, Epson Premium Semigloss, and 
Ilford 
> Smooth Pearl using the Epson Ultrachrome inks in my Epson 4000 
printer 
> with a QTR neutral profile that uses no black ink.  Each print was 
> subsequently printed over with glop in my Epson 2200 by overlaying 
a 
> 100% black rectangle the size of the image and then printed BO 
with 
> glop in the K slot.  As I reported earlier, there was still 
residual 
> bronzing in both the Epson Premium Semimatte and Epson Premium 
> Semigloss prints, but not a trace of bronzing remained in the 
Ilford 
> Smooth Pearl print after the glop overcoat.  This was surprising 
since 
> the Ilford Smooth Pearl print had the worst bronzing of the three 
> prints prior to the glop overcoat but came out the best.  So, 
there is 
> hope for using the Epson Ultrachromes with a glop overcoat if you 
use 
> the right paper.  The Ilford Smooth Pearl also had the highest 
dmax of 
> the 3 papers.
> 
> Carl
> 
> On Dec 22, 2004, at 2:14 PM, Steven Karafyllakis wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Matt;
> >
> > If you check back through the last two days of messages you'll 
find
> > my most recent report on doing just that. Look it up, it might 
save
> > you some time.
> >
> > It can be done, but there are mechanical problems that make it
> > frustrating with a desktop printer; I have now officially given 
up
> > on running it through my 1280, and am about to load the glop in 
the
> > K cart of my 7500. I simply got too frustrated by having 
otherwise
> > perfect prints marred at the last minute by roller tracks, pizza-
> > wheel tracks, head scrapes, etc. But by all means, take a crack 
at
> > it, trying it is cheap. The best papers I've found so far are 
Epson
> > Premium semi-gloss, amd premium semi-matte. I would offer you a
> > sample, but it'll be several days before I get the change-over 
done.
> >
> > Keep us posted-
> >
> > Steven Karafyllakis
> >
> > http://www.stevekphoto.com
> >