Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley"
<tyler@...> wrote:
>
> not heresy at all. Doing it here, but keeping the quad machine alive
> and well too.
> How about making that CMY in your setup just the light inks? Of course
> you have no choice with the Y, but still...
> A small gamut CMY would be even better, I still think it's those high
> saturation dots, no matter how spares, that are a problem.
> Tyler
> 
>

Yes that's what I was thinking, the light colors, or maybe even
diluted light colors should work very well. And if you had 5 black
inks, you should be able to get all (or more) of the tonality that the
quads use. Or use a double 4 black ink set so that you had both photo
and matte black installed. Actually for matte paper I would still run
all 5 blacks, but gloss would be only 4.

And depending on the light inks used, you can still get a decent sized
gamut if you use them at full mixture. I tried making a 4 color
comparison once with the cmYK and CMYK, the plots were different but
the over all volume was fairly similar. I wouldn't suggest trying to
pass this off as a full color printer, but for the occasional B/W with
some selective color it should have been OK.