Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven Karafyllakis" <steve@s...> wrote:
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> I'm pleasantly surprised to see you're trying this-for one, I 
> wouldn't think you had the time.
> 
> I must say though, I think you're missing a point I perhaps didn't 
> make well enough during the earlier round on glop-coating, regarding 
> the position. Everyone is hell-bent on putting it in one of the 
> color channels-that may be fine for that particular machine, but 
> glop-coating a print made on another machine at another time HAS to 
> be easier if the glop is in the K channel. You can still control it 
> via a curve and intergrate it when printing on that machine, but 
> doing a separate pass as an overcoat is simpler this way. And the 
> dot size on a 7500 is the coarsest in the K channel. If you're going 
> to give one over to glop, this to me makes the most sense.
 
Well, with glop in K on a 1280 with UT-7 you can use QTR and a K only curve to do pure glop in a second pass after drying the print, and still use the Epson driver and a Roark curve to do UT-7 if you don't want to use QTR for the printing in general (what the heck language am I writing this in anyway. I don't think I've ever put this many acronyms in one sentence before).

Although I think that UT7 and QTR for all permutations (regular B&W glopless printing, simultaneous glop, and overcoat glop). UT7 and Roark need K in K, and the only thing Y is good for is sepia. And all the QTR curves still work. 

Doesn't help me much, because I'm thinking of loading the 2200 up with UT (not UT-2 or UT-7) and that would best have glop in the LC position.