Digital BW, The Print

>... I read your previous postings on doing 3-MK on glossy media ...
> how tough is it to get decent coverage of GLOP on the Eboni? 

When one uses glop mixing with Eboni in the first pass and then a 
fairly heavy second coat it can make a very nice looking print.  It's 
not all that hard, but a 2-pass workflow is something that I think 
most will probably not want to mess with.  If you use a PK with the 
Eboni, it makes getting a sufficient gloss on the deep blacks much 
easier.

I stopped work on it for a variety of reasons.  One factor was that I 
had some fouling of my rollers.  I'm not sure if this happened all at 
once when I waited overnight for the second coat as opposed to 
quickly drying with a hair drier and making the second pass sooner.  
The one that sat overnight clearly had come off, in part on the 
rollers.

I also found that the MP-PK made a better dmax, but it also is more 
prone to clogging.  I found that also on the 1400.  It's not worth 
the very minor dmax increase.  Use MIS K4-PK.  Then mixing it with 
some Eboni allows a more consistent gloss as one approaches 100% 
black.

I stopped my experiments before I'd completely finished developing 
it.  So, only experienced printers who are comfortable fine tuning 
their own profiles and workflows should try glossy printing with the 
3-MK + glop + PK approach.

Paul   
www.PaulRoark.com