Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 11/12/2006 5:46:38 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
cj@... writes:

You have  touched on something that has flitted through my thoughts
several times  over the past few months.  Specifically, whether Epson
(or C. or HP),  assuming BW interest grows and they smell $, might
produce a dedicated BW  ink set for the K3 printers with an appropriate
ABW-type driver for  it.  Imagine an 8-ink set like this with an
additional gray

MK  - matte
PK - glossy
LK
LLK
LLLK
LC 
LM
SEPIA TONER (or  Glop?)

Or maybe warm/cool versions of the grays like UT-R2... or  something.

Not to get bogged down in specifics, just am wondering if  anyone
thinks this might happen.  After all, there was an entire  industry of
BW darkroom products and services for many years.  


This is why I'm trying the G Quad inset from Mediastreet. They offer MK,  PK, 
Cold dark gray, cold L gray, warm dark gray, warm L gray + surface optimizer  
for glossy papers. They use QTR for curves and you use the sliders for 
varying  tones. So far, I'm not happy with the ink lay down and the lack of 
smoothness in  the dots, but I just got it, and I'm playing with it. I'm wondering if 
IJC will  help.
 
Richard ( Brooklyn)


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In a message dated 11/12/06 5:46:21 PM, cj@... writes:


> You have touched on something that has flitted through my thoughts
> several times over the past few months.  Specifically, whether Epson
> (or C. or HP), assuming BW interest grows and they smell $, might
> produce a dedicated BW ink set for the K3 printers with an appropriate
> ABW-type driver for it.  Imagine an 8-ink set like this with an
> additional gray
> 
I've actually suggested that to more than one printer company... that doesn't 
seem to be what any of them are interested in. More a matter of optimizing B&
W in a color printer, no swapouts necessary. And that's probably the right 
view for them to take. They are, at most, one more gray, and one more driver 
revision from something that will be so close to optimal that a gray system would 
make no sense at all for them.

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Division
DataColor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com


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