Digital BW, The Print

Thanks, Costa;

I will be getting some refillables soon, and since I have some MIS I 
will certainly try it again. 

Steve Karafyllakis

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "ccolbertbw" 
<ccolbert@u...> wrote:
> 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