Digital BW, The Print

Guys,you may count on one thing for sure...you 're gonna drive us all humble
printers crazy!!! (maybe eating dog&cat food with ink souce...)


> I print in CMYK mode with a RIP that has very sophisiticated ink
> controls, and I've calibrated the system with a spectrophotometer. I use
> custom dot gain curves to preview the grayscale images, and custom
> spectrophotometer-based CMYK profiles to preview the color separations
> (they're b&w images, but the subtle color splits of the ink set are
> important). I do 4 channel separations in Photoshop, using saved curves;
> the RIP separates the Cc and Mm split-channels, but I've customized the
> crossover curves the RIP uses for that, too.

Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 12:48:14 -0700
   From: "Martin Wesley" <mwesley250@...>
Subject: Re: digital b&w show in Boston gallery

Richard,

If you would be willing to put your workflow down on paper, so to speak, ink
dilutions and blends, brand of RIP, separation curves, etc. I would be very
happy to post it all in the Files section of the list. I really want to
compile as many of the alternate workflows as possible. While you are rare
in your use of a RIP and CMYK separation curves you are not alone. What you
are doing with the curves and the inks is sort of the path of ultimate
control over your output.