Digital BW, The Print

Ernst,

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>
> So an Eboni MK + a 3-4 dilutions HP Vivera PK + a 3-4 dilutions MIS
> glossy carbon and a range of slightly cool, dead neutral and quite warm,
> matte + glossy papers would be a great combination for one printer. QTR
> to drive it
>
>
> Yes.  For matte and glossy, sepia to neutral, this  is all it takes.  The
separate LM and LC allow one to profile a broader range of hues, but at the
expense of complexity.

The UT14 inkset was basically this approach, but, of course, using MIS's
pigments for the cool end also.

I have a new beta cool MIS blend that is supposed to balance the color
pigment fade rates and also avoid the separation in the blend.  (We'll
see.)  The problem with the "one size fits all" UT14 approach was that
there were too few inks used for any particular print tone (hue).  In a 6
ink printer it's hard to do it  all.  So, for the follow-up for  the 1430,
I'm inclined to drop the Gloss Optimizer from  the Y position and require
that people switch black inks to switch between matte and glossy.  I might
also have the Y position be either cool or warm depending  on whether
neutral or  cool is the main target.  While I think that the QTR sliders
are probably the best way to control a warm-cool mix, most MIS customers
seem to use the  Epson driver.  On a hextone printer, that's  relatively
easy to manage.  Too bad we don't have drivers that can variably blend ICCs.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com


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