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[Digital BW] Re: Optimal RIP gamma - was how many shades of grey?

2005-06-20 by john dean

Now that these 3 black channel printers are out there and there are so many 
rich tonal pigment solutions, for the life of me I can't imagine why anyone 
would want to print out of one channel anymore. Those days are far in the 
past for me.

John


> > For BO printing why not simply make RGB profiles? I realize it's not
> > as whiz bang but it will have all the tags you are after, preview very
> > nicely, etc..
> > You'd probably be limited to printing out of adobe or other apps that
> > allow conversion before handing off but I'll bet that's most people
> > here anyway.
> > You'll have an on-the-fly conversion from grayscale to the RGB
> > profile, that then printed with BO, but so what?
> > Tyler
> > 
> > 
> >

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