Digital BW, The Print

no, that's not what I was doing. A spot channel was used for GO in the
intial pass with the image, totally controllable in all parts of the
scale. Unfortunately in the papers that I like, that is not enough,
nor is it with the Z. Probably due to all going down wet together.
Hence the second pass, which completed the look. The complexities of
this kind of printing became a bit overwhelming, and all kinds of
obscure details, completely different for each paper, became major issues.
Spraying seems far more effective from what I have seen from Mark
Savoia and John Dean, but I can not do that in a commercial (though
minute) environment.
Using a printer as an overprint system though, is very conventient.
I wouldn't mind having an old 7000 or 9000 around just for that kind
of thing.

Tyler

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Ernst Dinkla
<edinkla@...> wrote:
>
> James W Veenstra wrote:
> > I think this is basically what my z3100ps GP does with its 12th head  
> > of "gloss enhancer".  J Vee
> 
> Basically yes but with a difference. I own a Z3100 too. The 
> difference is that the Z3100 will lay down the gloss 
> enhancer right with the other inks, like the Epson 
> R800/1800. In the case discussed the gloss enhancer is laid 
> down in a second print run after the image is printed. In 
> theory one could lay down more gloss enhancer that way as 
> the printed image could dry in between. In practice the 
> Z3100 already lays down enough gloss enhancer. On top of 
> that the Z3200 adds control of the amount of gloss enhancer 
> applied. The other advantage of the Z3100/Z3200 in applying 
> the gloss enhancer is the direct register when using the 
> Economy Mode, only the image gets gloss enhancer, not the 
> margins around. That is a lot more difficult with two print 
> runs.
> 
> -- 
> Met vriendelijke groeten,  Ernst
> 
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