Digital BW, The Print

Steve,


>...
>glop-coating a print made on another machine at another time HAS to 
>be easier if the glop is in the K channel.

I'm aiming for matte and "glopped," bronze-free glossies from a single
machine without having to change any inks.

>... the dot size on a 7500 is the coarsest in the K channel. 

I'm not sure the 7500 is up to what I'm trying for now.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com 





Steve Karafyllakis

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" 
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:
> I have Glop working in the 1280 with the Epson driver.  I have an 
Ilford
> Galerie Smooth Pearl with and without glop for comparison.  Both 
have about
> the same general, overall golden sheen from a tungsten spot light, 
but when
> reflections form an overhead fluorescent light are seen on the 
surface, the
> glop makes a huge difference.  There is none what I consider the 
irritating
> differential, bronze reflection.
> 
>  
> 
> The glop was in the Y position of a 1280 cart, with UT-FSN CMCM in 
the
> others.  The black was generated by the C + M, Eboni was in the K 
spot.
> 
>  
> 
> Curves are needed to control the glop.  When the PK is in the K 
spot the
> glop seems to accentuate the gloss differential from the black ink.
> 
>  
> 
> There is no way to measure it, so it's an eyeball deal, and it 
took a lot of
> glop the worst places of the print.  The idea of a straight 10% 
curve did
> not work at with Ilford.
> 
>  
> 
> So, the question is what is it worth doing with?
> 
>  
> 
> One thought is that in the UT2 inkset, it might just replace the 
sepia in
> the Y position and then not have that much affect on the other 
curves.  If
> that is the case, having a UT2-Glop might make sense.  I'm not 
going to
> spend much time on the 1280.  So, if it could just be switched 
into the Y
> spot and the other curves worked, it might be an easy way to go.
> 
>  
> 
> Paul
> 
> www.PaulRoark.com <http://www.paulroark.com/>  
> 
>  
> 
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