Re: [Digital BW] Re: Growing up...better printing
2004-12-05 by Bob Frost
Chip, Been away on hols, so rather late with this comment. The Gloss Optimizer in the R800 is only used on the areas of the paper that DON'T have any other ink on them, not on the whole of the image. It just brings the white areas of the paper up to the gloss of the inked areas. If you look at prints on an Epson Picturemate that has the same Higloss Ultrachrome inks but no gloss optimizer, you can see the white areas are less glossy, not the inked areas! I assume the HiGloss Ultrachromes inks are simply more glossy when dried than the normal Ultrachromes. Bob Frost.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "chipcarterdc" <chipcarterdc@...> I realize this is going to sound crazy, but bear with me. If you like printing on glossy/luster papers for the fine-art prints that you sell (I personally use matte papers for fine-art work that will be framed and reserve glossy/luster for situations where the prints will be handled unframed) and if you are bothered by the bronzing (as we all are), have you considered buying a couple of gloss optimizer cartridges for the R800, cracking them open, then coating your prints with the goo? I actually tried this out of curiosity to see what the gloss op would do on matte papers and it looked horrific on Enhanced Matte (I didn't try it with any other matte papers). Not aurprising since the stuff can only be used for glossy papers in the R800. But since you're printing glossy anyway, it might be worth a shot provided you can figure a nice even way to apply it.