QTR-Quadtone RIP

As a starting point you could use any of the K3 series printers with the 
OEM inks and the PK cartridge. It would give you an idea of the base you 
could achieve. Jon Cone may have some ink sets for glossy papers too, 
and MIS does though you'd probably have to make your own QTR curves for 
them. Then you've got an ever growing range of 'glossy' papers to work 
with, some with a Baryta base, others not. (Though I'm somewhat 
suspicious that the use of baryta coatings is more for marketing than 
performance reasons - I don't see why a base developed for use with 
chemically processed silver would be the best base to use for dye and 
pigment deposition with no wet chemistry!)

On 17/01/2011 15:25, flambeauriver wrote:
> Before the digital era, I printed only B/W and usually on Oriental
> Seagull paper. RIch blacks and the price was right. I always bought
> glossy but never ferrotyped the prints, just drying them on screens or
> sometimes in a blotter book.
>
> I have spent days reading over posts in this group and it seems if you
> like the matte look you're good to go, but if you want the "Seagull"
> look with a glossy look it is tough. Or do I have this wrong?
>
> Do you get used to a matte print and then spray it for glossy as needed?
>
> I have read Mr. Roark's pages concerning using the HP pigments or the
> Claria dyes which made me very interested but then I saw the price! I am
> quite reluctant to spend the money for the 2 Claria dyes as a starter,
> or has someone figured out how to get these materials in smaller
> quantity at an affordable price?
>
> Thanks so much in advance.
>
> Cordially- Dan
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