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Re: [Digital BW] Blending BW and color in a single print

2006-03-09 by Tyler Boley

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Ernst Dinkla
<E.Dinkla@...> wrote:
>
>...Another possibility would be to direct greyscale to 
> an RGB flow as well but give it another profile/paper setting 
> treatment with total black generation from 100-0% and the 
> profile more directed to neutrality.

Bingo!
If you want to take it a bit farther, convert your original as gray to
that profile, then convert again from the color version to a profile
perhaps more optimized for color (less GCR), then blend to two files
as desired being careful to assign, not convert, when combining. Then
print "same as source".
However, with the new printers, some may have no problem with the look
of Max GCR for the whole enchilada..
Tyler

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