See this thread for DJ Delorie's custom print software, which he uses to get more ink:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Homebrew_PCBs/message/28718(I'd guess it's linux only)
PG
On 08/10/2011, at 8:21 AM, lists wrote:
> In article
> <CAFgkapC58p0cp9Sik=AXAUPJx8=omhKzvTbz6rzQ1JZZzHmjDA@...>,
> Andrew Thornber <andrew.thornber@...> wrote:
>
> > Personally if you need to print CMYK then have a look at photo printers
> > as they print in the CMYK space. (It's oldish but to prove a point have
> > a look at the Epson C82)
>
> I think you will find that all printers, including "home" printers use
> CMYK. Certainly all the ink-jets I have owned did. The difference with the
> "photo" printers was that they used two further inks, paler versions of
> cyan and magenta usually, in order to achieve the delicacy of colour.
>
> One rather old piece of DTP software I have could produce the required
> CMYK separations as separate files on a disc for submission to a
> commercial printer. I guess it would have been possible just to print
> locally from one of these separations.
>
> Although of necessity it uses RGB to display stuff, Photoshop can use a
> variety of "colour spaces" internally but I'm not enough of an expert to
> know whether it can print the separate colours to a printer.
>
> However, photoshop is just a teeny bit expensive!
>
> --
> Stuart Winsor
>
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