Digital BW, The Print

Steve.
  I bought and used MIS glop recenty. It is still tea-colored in the bottle. Using QTR, I set 
the value at a fixed 16000. On Kirkland paper it cut down almost all the gloss differential. 
As far as dulling the highlights, it didn't. I had set all the output values including 0. So 
although I printed an 5x7 on an 8x10 page, it was covering the nonimage portion with 
glop as well. I stopped it about half way down the page. Along the edge where there was a 
sharp border, you could only see the border if you held it just-right in the light. Where the 
printing stopped, and therefore transitioned smoothly from full glop to no glop, where 
only some head passes had completed, I couldn't find the border at all. There is a very 
slight decrease in the glossiness of the paper where the glop has been applied.

My previous experience was not as successful. Apparently the cleaning cart that I used had 
some coloration in it and it took quite a while to flush all traces of color out. My nozzle 
checks showed a very faint gray, and my prints looked veiled. Now I can't see the nozzle 
check pattern at all on plain paper. (I haven't tried a nozzle check on Kirkland.) But the 
gloss differential is way down so something must be coming out. All in all I would say it 
seems to be working well.

Costa




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven Karafyllakis" <steve@s...> 
wrote:
> Hi all;
> 
> Now that I have a printer that can use gloss optimizer, I'm hoping to 
> find a 3rd party version that is clear enough not to affect the color 
> of the highlight values. Has anyone bought the MIS recently? Has that 
> been improved? What other choices (other than Epson that is) are out 
> there that anyone has tried?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Steve Karafyllakis