Digital BW, The Print

Barry,

You wrote:

>...
>Imagine that MIS created a hextone B/W inkset that matched the ink
densities
>of their 6-color pigment ink. We could profile the color inkset & use that
>profile to print either color or B&W from our photo printers. ...

That might be close to where we are going.  The CMY MIS archival pigs may
not have the same visual densities, so there might be a compromise for the
sake of production efficiencies.  I'm currently thinking of having the cyan
and magenta densities equal and having the yellow be whatever is needed to
get the best highlights.  I think the yellow has lower visual density that
then others, which is why they can get away with only a single yellow ink.

Whether the new mix is close enough to use the same paper profiles might be
a relevant factor to take into consideration.  Different color balance
characteristics of the different papers would, of course, be irrelevant.
However, to the extent the paper profiles deal with keeping the ramp smooth
and even, they would certainly be very useful.

Any thoughts or ideas along these lines would be most useful to me as I get
into this.  I'm not an expert on the color inksets at all.  So, I'm really
not that much aware of what profiles exist.

I suppose the ability to work well with the profiling software would also be
important.  Any settings that are needed for that software to do its job
would be most useful to know.

Paul
http://www.PaulRoark.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Roark" <paul.roark@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 11:16 AM
Subject: RE: [Digital BW] MIS/1200 Options?


> Bill,
>
> I've seen some excellent MIS VM 1200 test prints.
>
> The 1290 & general hextone ink distribution for MIS FS inks should also
work
> well on the 1200.  A simple grayscale adjustment curve has been made by a
> forum member for the 1290, and since it is for a non-partitioned,
> grayscale-file printing mode, it will probably be close to what is needed
> for all hextone printers.  I'll be refining this approach soon, as it
holds
> out the promise of really outstanding prints with far fewer problems than
> are introduced by radical partitioning curves.
>
> Paul
> http://www.PaulRoark.com
>
>
> ____________________________
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: billy_iverson [mailto:wiverson@...]
>   Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 5:00 AM
>   To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
>   Subject: [Digital BW] MIS/1200 Options?
>
>
>   A friend has an Epson 1200 available for B&W printing, and wants to
>   use MIS inks.  What options are there, if any, other than the freebie
>   curves downloadable from the MIS site?  Thanks.  Bill Iverson