Digital BW, The Print

Tyler,

Do you have any spectro readings on the K7 gloss inkset?  I'm just 
curious how they compare to the UT-RC inkset I set up.  It's at 
http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/R260-BW-GS-Eps.pdf including some 
graphs of the print tones on various papers.

This RC inkset is what I've recommended in the past to those who want 
glossy printing in the 1800 as well as the 3-MK matte printing.  At 
this point, I would probably still recommend it over the MK+Glop I'm 
experiementing with.  Being the most recent glossy-compatible insket 
I've mixed, it has the tones and ratios that I'm leaning toward for 
that type of (blended) monotone inkset.  There are 3 tones and 2 
midtone dilutions for each.  It's for the 1.5 pl printers.

Additionally, I must note on my glop experiments that I was getting 
roller marks on some images.  These marks were not the pin-hole type 
of pizza wheel tracks I'm accustomed to.  I printed a matte print on 
the 1800 and was rather disturbed to see the tracks on the matte 
paper also.

So, I cleaning the rollers by running a piece of EEM through the 
printer with an ammonia spray across the center of the paper.  Then a 
number of plain paper sheet were run through the printer to dry 
things.  The bottom line on the cleaning is that lots of ink and 
probably glop came off the rollers.  A similar cleaning procedure on 
a 220 that I've  been using a lot for experimentation on various 
inksets, most recently the Eboni-6 -- but never the glop overcoating 
approach -- showed no fouling of the rollers at all.  I think those 
who use glop heavily might want to regularly clean their rollers.

Every time I go down this glossy road, I end up coming back to matte.

I'll keep up the experimenting just because the new papers are 
interesting but my serious printing remains 100% matte paper.

Paul   
www.PaulRoark.com