Digital BW, The Print

Yes this is an option. The challange is alignment.
You can't get a perfect alignment with an overprint. So you have to either
accept some misregistration or print glop borderless over the whole sheet
(messy) or print a glop border round the print.

I've tried the GLOP approach and the spray approach. I'm actually sticking
with spray because I only do a light spray on Fibre Silk to reduce the GD
and I target it at the white areas of the print.

Mike




2008/11/6 Richard Smallfield <r.smallfield@...>

>   Hi,
> I'm sure someone has thought of this before, but here goes:
>
> Currently I love the look of FB lustre prints - but - there's bronzing and
> gloss differential (esp with my original ultrachromes). To kill that, I've
> been spraying - but am phasing this out because of the toxicity, even if
> that means no more lustre papers.
>
> So: here's my idea: why not buy cartridge of GLOP from MIS and put it in
> the K position - then, after doing the print, print again a black 'image' of
> the same dimensions, over the top of the print - the printer thinks it's
> printing black, but actually it's GLOP.
>
> You could do a batch of prints and then run them all through the printer
> and get rid of the gloss differential and bronzing.
>
> If one has an inkset that doesn't have a GLOP position, this sounds
> feasible to me - at least, in a 13" printer that won't waste a lot of ink
> with the cartridge swap.
>
> Richard
>
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>
> "Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
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>
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