Digital BW, The Print

Thanks, Paul.  now that you explain it, it makes sense.
David

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" 
<paul.roark@...> wrote:
>
> David,
> 
> >I know you've made great strides in your testing and seem to have 
> >settled on MIS EZW in place of yellow. 
> >... did you ever try MIS EZN? 
> 
> I did not try it.  The ABW mode is geared to having yellow in the 
yellow
> position.  The EZW, being pure carbon, is like a very low gamut 
yellow in
> terms of its color.  Even with this warm carbon in the Y spot, 
however, the
> ABW controls are somewhat limited in the extent to which they can 
reach the
> warm tones.  If cool EZN were put in the Y position, I think you 
would get
> nice cold tones, but you would probably not be able to achieve a 
neutral
> tone at all.  The ABW mode driver puts all the colors -- cmY -- in 
the
> image, and if Y = EZN all of those would be cool.  So, I'd stick 
to EZW for
> a more useable tonal range from the ABW mode controls.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
>