Digital BW, The Print

> From: Bob Frost <bob@...>
 
> And then testing!
> 
> 1    The Epson GLOP is only used on premium glossy & premium lustre papers
> on the R800; the option is grayed out on matte papers.
> 
> 2    When you use premium glossy or lustre, the GLOP option ungrays itself
> and presents two options, Auto - in which the GLOP is used only in the image
> area, and Full - the GLOP is used in the whole printable paper area.
> 
> 3    You can also untick GLOP, when using Premium glossy or lustre paper,
> and then the printer prints just as with matte papers - no GLOP. The
> downside is that you now see the white areas of the print as less glossy
> than the inked areas.
> 
> 4    The bably Epson Picturemate has the same inks as the R800, minus the
> GLOP cart and the matte black cart. The images from it on premium glossy are
> the same as those from the R800 with the GLOP turned off - the white areas
> are less glossy.
> 
> 5    If the GLOP cart were used on all the image, then we would be swapping
> out used GLOP carts all the time. I've changed several ink carts, but am
> still on the first GLOP cart.
> 
> That seems pretty conclusive to me, but I'm open to other interpretations.

My point is that we don't know how much glop is laid down for various ink
densities.  Nothing in the above answers this question.


> 
> Epson seem to have done something to the inks of the R800 and Picturemate;
> they are 'HiGloss' inks on their own, with only a trace of the 'dichroism',
> 'bronzing', 'differential gloss' that we get with the 2100/2200 and the
> ordinary Ultrachromes on premium glossy.
> 


Interesting that they don't release a HiGloss set for the 21/2200 if it is
considered a significant advancement - ex glop.  Even the R1800 is not
pitched as a successor to the 2100.