Digital BW, The Print

Steven,

The glossiness of the R800 HighGloss Ultrachromes does NOT depend on the 
printer having the GLOP cartridge. The R800 inks are glossy by themselves on 
Premium Glossy Paper. If you don't believe me just turn the GLOP cart off in 
the printer driver (Advanced page). The only difference will be that the 
white and nearwhite areas of the print will be less glossy since they have 
no glossy ink on them. Turning the GLOP cart back on simply fills in these 
white areas to match the highgloss inked areas.

Details of these new inks are at 
http://www.knoware.epson.com/library/RefMat/inkjets/UltraHiGlossTech.pdf

The Epson Picturemate has the same inks as the R800 but no GLOP in the cart. 
The prints are just as glossy, apart from the white areas.


Bob Frost.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Karafyllakis" <steve@...>

The R800 is a very good choice for a first printer, for the reasons
you stated and also because it will do glossy prints with out some
of the surface reflectance problems that pigments usually produce on
gloss and semi-gloss papers. It does that with the gloss optimizer
(which we have reduced to 'glop') which fills in gaps in the gloss
and evens out the reflectance. MIS does indees produce an R800
equivalent set of pigments, but their glop did not produced quite as
high a gloss as the Epson, so they have temporarily pulled the
entire set until they can formulate a good replacement. It should be
avilable again before too long.