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

2006-03-10 by Olivier

> 
> I'm not sure what kind of "magic" they use but here is what the 
> manual says:  "Equal channel RGB images with colored highlights can 
> be printed using our grayscale technology for the neutral portions, 
> while the color portions use our color profiles.  The Colorize B/W 
> field becomes active when you choose a Gray profile in the 
> Printer/Paper field.  With a gray profile chosen, then choosing a 
> color profile in the Colorize B/W field will allow you to use 
> ImagePrint's colorize feature.  This feature will cause the black and 
> white areas of the print to be output using the Gray profile, while 
> the color areas will be printed using the color profile selected in 
> the Colorize B/W field."
> 
> You end up using two profiles, one for black and white and one for 
> color.  It does work but I don't know how.
> 

Tina, thanks for your input in the discussion. So if I follow the 
above, in fact it's just a multi-profiling process ; it is not done at 
the hardware level e.g. by only driving Ks heads instead of all col. 
heads ?

Olivier

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