Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 11/22/06 4:40:56 AM, j.h.j.h@... writes:

>  I'm currently setting up a set of QTR curves
> for the UT3D inkset, including some split tone curves, and I'd love
> to experiment in this direction. 
> 
Thats an interesting area. While I find the most direct way to work with 
tonality in B&W to be standard inksets, and PrintFIX PRO 2 profiles; it is also 
possible to profile the MIS UT3D inksets with PrintFIX PRO 2 right through the 
OEM driver, no RIP required. This works a bit differently than with full gamut 
inksets, but it offers full control of the UT3D gamut, with live preview of 
the adjustments in Photoshop, so that you can create any tint or cross-tint 
within the inkset's gamut visually, on screen, then print this same result with 
the UT3D inks and paper that the profile was created for. Lovely sepias, carbon 
tints, and cross-tints.

I should note that the UT3D neutral results, simply profiling them with PFP2, 
and printing a neutral or grayscale image to them, is a beautifully smooth 
tone just a hair to the carbon side of neutral, and, being a toned grayscale 
inkset, it has smoother microscopic results than with OEM inksets. Tyler will be 
interested to see the gray ink smoothness of these prints from printers 
starting below a hundred dollars; the R220 I'm testing on was $99 at Staples.

So any PrintFIX PRO owners who were wishing they could test the new B&W 
capabilities, but who lack a "two-gray" printer to test with: dig out that old 
R200, 220, 260, 300, 320, 340, 380, or RX500, 580, 600, 620, or 700; or any other 
printer the UT3Ds will run on (or buy a new one for under a hundred dollars) 
get a set of UT3Ds to match, and give it a try. I'll be interested to hear your 
results.

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Unit
Datacolor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com
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