Digital BW, The Print

When printing on glossy papers, including the Innova F-type gloss,
Silver Rag and Oriental baryta, I use Krystal Topkote in a second pass
through the printer, though with Epson K3 and UC inks rather than UT2.
I compared KT with Epson R800 glop as second pass coats, and KT as
simultaneous and second pass coats, and decided on KT as a second pass
coat. One coat of KT more-or-less eliminates gloss differential while
increasing D-max. Two coats work slightly better, but I normally only
give one coat. It affords some physical protection as well.

Two coats of KT do work with matte black inks on glossy paper, though
not as well as a rolled or brushed on varnish for example, or as well
as using PK. I've tried it with Septone inks and with Epson UC/K3 MK.

Best,
Helen

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Michael Kitei
<mkitei@...> wrote:
>
> I've tested some of Roark's profiles using UT2 inks and  Innova Fiba  
> Gloss and found that the one for EPSG with PK  seems to work very  
> well, however, there is still some gloss differentiation to be seen.  
> Does anyone know if there is a way to use glop with this. If I  
> replace the yellow cartridge with glop and use the pk profile will it  
> affect the situation, or does it only work with eboni? The profile  
> for eboni caused huge gloss diff and required some other adjustments  
> as well.
> 
> Mike Kitei
>