Digital BW, The Print

Paul,

If you need testers for this I'm all ears! I run the UT-14 / 1400 and would
love to test this new approach.

:)


Cheers
JF



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2013/7/18 Paul Roark <roark.paul@...>

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