Digital BW, The Print

Greg wrote:
> --- 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.

Related to this: Qimage got a change to its ICC profiling 
system so it now allows to profile per image in a print page. 
  So multiple profiles can be used on one print run. With a 
profile that emphasises the neutrality and another one that is 
more suited to color printing it must be possible to make some 
basic lay-outs with B&W and color prints on one page. This is 
still "RGB" printer profiling so not really affecting ink 
choices etc. Of course it can't be used with QTR  as the last 
doesn't have a color engine.

Ernst


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