Digital BW, The Print

Ben,

You might try overprinting with Piezography Gloss Optimizer which is a polyester material - if you can spare a channel on your printer for that purpose. We can supply you with a QTR curve to control it if you have a means by which to supply the GO into the printer. The refillable carts and CIS systems we sell require an entire set of chips in order to function - so they won't work with the OEM carts in place.

But, my GO would eliminate the bronzing and may potentially remove any gloss differential between ink and paper. It removes all gloss differential with Piezography glossy inks - but I do not know if it would function in the same way with Epson 3K blacks. Both inks are encapsulated - and the potential is good for the solution to work in the same way.

Mark's suggestion of spraying with Lumijet will also work if you do not mind the spraying. Many of my Piezography glossy customers spray because they do not have enough ink channels to run a GO with the six or seven shades of Piezography glossy ink.

As far as Carbon glossy inks - we sell so little of our Warm Neutral Glossy inks in comparison to the Selenium glossy inks. Going even further warmer would not seem to attract enough customers to warrant a production of triple encapsulated carbon (which is how we go glossy). However, it may be possible that I will use triple encapsulation on all my inks later in 2010 to make everything matte/glossy compatible. Right now just Selenium K7 and Warm Neutral K7 have this treatment and it does not affect its ability on matte. It just adds additional expense to the making of the ink. So - keep attention to my website or sign up for the newsletters here:

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Jon Cone



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "ben" <benjschneider2@...> wrote:
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> I am wondering what carbon based inks are available for printing on glossy stocks like Epson's Exhibition Glossy paper?
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> I have converted a R1800 to a 3K photo black printer using OEM inks.  The prints are nice except for a slight bronzing.  The bronzing is greatly reduced by waxing.
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> I would like to find a good B&W carbon based ink set which will work well on a glossy surface.  Since my R1800s are getting old, I would be up to purchasing a new printer.
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> Ben
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