Digital BW, The Print

I worked on the SG inks with Joe and with Lyson, (I was the second person in the US to receive a set) and have revisited them with Joe more recently. The real issues are as follows:

Low saturation inks are made by mixing color with neutral pigments, and keeping both equally in solution is difficult (just ask Paul; he and I worked on several sets based on this premise for MIS).

Newer printers with as many as three grays, two blacks and a gloss optimizer make it unnecessary to create other solutions. 

C. D. Tobie
Global Product Technology Mngr.
Imaging Color Solutions
Datacolor.com
CDTobie@datacolor.com

On Jan 19, 2012, at 6:31 AM, Ernst Dinkla <e.dinkla@onsneteindhoven.nl> wrote:

> Joseph Holmes' patented Small Gamut ink concept was in itself not a bad 
> idea in my opinion. It is another matter that Lyson used the wrong 
> approach with dye inks that would fade and it also paid not enough 
> attention to "metamerism" with those inks. Considering the higher 
> resolutions, smaller droplets of today's inkjet printers and far better 
> pigment inks available now I would expect a better Small Gamut printer 
> could be possible. In Paul's mixing the color inks are not avoided 
> either or better said they can not be avoided. Small Gamut inks should 
> fit OEM drivers easier than any other custom quad mixture I guess. Not 
> to mention adapted ICC color management.
> 
> Any thoughts on this?