Digital BW, The Print

Steve,

>... I think there is potentially something to be said
>for an "overcoat" rather than laying down glop "in the mix".  
>Worth exploring.

Definitely, and its one of the things on the front burner.

There appear to be advantages to both using Glop while printing and using it
as an overcoat.  Which approach is best may vary with the circumstances.
Both should probably be easy to do in an optimum printer setup.

There are a number of factors.  Since I'm gallery sitting soon, I can just
mention a couple that may affect the overcoat method:

The glop is not totally transparent.  It has some density.  As such, the
highlights will be dulled by it.  In my curves I put very little if any glop
in the highlights. I don't want the highlights dulled.

I find that a curved that tailors the glop to the bronzing pattern allows me
to deal with the highlight issues while still pouring glop on where the
bronzing is worst.

The ideal might be a perfectly registered overcoat, but that is not very
realistic with these printers.  Even a fuzzy mask is going to probably be
hitting the spectral highlights.

So ...  I'm thinking flexibility of approach at this point.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com