Digital BW, The Print

Steve,

Thank you for this tip.  The key insight you had was to make the 
density of cyan the same as magenta, and photocyan the same as 
photomagenta.  I am surprised you made the density of yellow greater 
than the photocyan and photomagenta.  I use the FS inks in a very 
similar fashion to your method:

Cyan and magenta = dark ink (cyan FS ink)
Photocyan and photomagenta = medium ink (magenta FS ink)
Yellow = light ink (yellow FS ink).

This produces WYSISYP for Eclipse Satine papers. For EAM and 
Hahenemuhle line, the 90 and 95% need slight lightening, while the 5 
and 10% need slight darkening.

It will be interesting to see if the new Piezography system does not 
use this ink arrangment.  It would be amenable to profiling based 
purely on density, not on color based saparation.  The Epson driver 
(and Canon, no doubt) does this very well!

Regards.

Shilesh

PS: Excellent photographs on your web-site.  Wish you would 
participate in O'Connell's print exchanges so I could get some of 
your prints.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven 
Karafyllakis <stevek@e...>" <stevek@e...> wrote:
> Hello all;
> 
> Between buying a wide-format printer and all the excitement and 
> hushed (we're all sooo restrained about it) anticipation of all 
> these new printing solutions coming on line, I'd almost set aside 
my 
> 1280 and the custom ink-set I'd been working on for it. Today while 
> refilling some carts (and swearing at the nuisance of it)  it 
slowly 
> sank in that there may still be a temporary need for this ink-set 
> among 1280 users: Paul's new VM set may not be available for this 
> machine for a while, and may well be based on the same curves (Paul 
> might give us his thoughts on this). If that's the case, if you had 
> a 1280 (as I do) that doesn't work well with those curves, you 
still 
> have a problem. Cone's new profiling system will be available first 
> for the Cannons and then for Epsons, so it may be a few weeks to a 
> few months for that, and PixelPixasso, well, who knows. At any 
rate, 
> I've decided to post the mix and settings; hopefully it'll provide 
a 
> workable solution for some of the 1280 owners who can't use the VM 
> curves, until something better comes along. Although, for my 1280, 
> the only real weak points are the life-span issue, and the lack of 
> variable tone. 
> 
> There's a link on my website: http://www.stevekphoto.com
> 
> 
> I would appreciate some feedback from anyone who tries it.
> 
> Steve k