Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "c1asia"
<c1asia@...> wrote:
>...the selenium MPS set. They
> > are just not advertising it as a gloss setup yet since QTR profiles
> > are not ready from them. Anyone buying it is completely on their 
> own.
> > I have it in a 7800 right now, K7 plus GO, 8 slots.
> > Tyler
> >
> 
> 
> tyler,
> 
> can you tell me how this works?
> 
> i have an epson R1800 and am planning to convert it to K7 selenium 
> and want to be able to use the new glossy fiber and baryta papers.  
> how do i set this up to do a second pass with glop only?
> 
> what else is needed?

Honestly I could not tell you what to do, it's really not ready yet. I
doubt they would even sell it to you yet without a lot of caveats that
you are on your own. You'd need special QTR profiles, and the fact
that they are not available yet from IJM is indicative of the setup
difficulty. Some needs to go down with the ink initially, different
amounts in different parts of the scale, and that differently for
different papers- this aside from from controlling the 7 inks
themselves, also paper dependent. The amount of glop in the second
pass is also paper dependent. I suppose you'd make a BO QTR ink setup
and assign the GLOP to that channel but I'm not a QTR guy.
Seriously, it's difficult, time and materials intensive.

It took some harassing on my part to get them to take my money for it.
See if Olivier replies as well, I believe he's trying it with QTR.
I'd call this a product still in development in some ways.

I also have to say that this inkset makes some of the most beautiful
prints on matte, like German Etching, I've seen- assuming a good match
to image and tones. But that's not what you're after.

I'm working on a way to provide samples of the gloss look and will
post about that in a few days. I don't want to be in that business so
I'm trying to do it right.

Tyler