Digital BW, The Print

Well I would say that it is quite a good interim solution!  I have
previously given up on RC papers because of these issues.  Now I haven't
even bothered to re-profile my printer for matte paper.  Glop works for now
- if a better coating comes along then it is probably just a mater of
swapping out the cart, flushing and relinearizing.  I find the application
of a coating via a printer gets rid of most of the headaches I saw in other
solutions (sprays, mayer rods etc).  While I suspect glop is not as good a
coating in some respects as a varnish, net net I find the current setup
workable with little fuss.  RC is back in play...


> From: Ernst Dinkla <E.Dinkla@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:39:47 +0100
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: glop concept goofy, temporary?
> 
> 
> Steve Kale wrote:
> 
>> A few comments on "glop".
>>  
>> 
> With your comments and the messages I have collected on coatings,
> varnishes and glop since May 2003 on two lists I also think that this
> isn't a final answer either.
> A general coating after printing that protects, takes bronzing and
> differential gloss away and can be applied with a printer on B&W + color
> prints, matte and gloss. An older printer can take care of that, amount
> of coating can be controlled by QTR and the number of heads used, lower
> DPI selected for speed. Waterclear base like Hydrocote but printer
> friendly.
> So I will not add glop to the quad 9000 inkset.
> 
> Ernst
>