Digital BW, The Print

On 09/08/2013 02:45 AM, David Kachel wrote:
> The process itself is too cheap and low end for that. The best you can
> do is give your images a selenium or brown tone.
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> /I have yet to see any of these outfits like Blurb that even come close
> to providing acceptable reproductions without out color casts or extreme
> metameric failure. Even the "sepia" hued books I've seen look horrible./
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> David Kachel

The HP Indigo liquid toner electrostatic process is not that low end. It 
comes close to offset printing in quality with certified paper 
qualities. If just one of the companies that actually do the job for 
Blurb has the courage to replace CMYK with a Quad toner set and use Paul 
Roark style partitioning ICC profiles (or my adaption of that for CMYK 
RIPs) it would give them an advantage to compete with other Blurb 
suppliers. A market niche possibly but one that can get bigger fast if 
the quality is good. There is more potential in that process as the 
Indigo's can have up to 7 toner stations if I recall it correctly so 
sepia etc + a warm paper like Indigo certified Biotop 3 would be 
possible too.


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