Digital BW, The Print

On 09/08/2013 04:56 PM, john wrote:
> That is my understanding too David. The technology is certainly there
> but the workflow of using monochrome inks has not been utilized by
> anyone as far as I can see by anyone in the POD high-speed low cost
> press realm.
>
> As Ernst just mentioned they most likely could specialize in it by using
> gray inks only with a couple of toner channels for variation, but just
> aren't. Even using one gray channel could improve things a lot but
> limiting the process to cmyk is not going to work. There is a reason in
> the offset days we used duotones in the context of book projects where 4
> color was also utilized for the color content, and that involved a
> separate printing with different inks, stripping, and registration.
>
> The problem for a POD company would be people requesting clean neutral
> bw in the same book as 4 color, and of course everyone would be
> screaming for that too and that would be expensive with the technology
> as it stands now.
>
> But with the huge assortment of competing design companies trying to
> find a market share you would think that at least one of them would
> specialize in doing black and white only books. There is surely a market
> there and some day it will be addressed, but I guess not now.
>
> John

John.

I renewed a contact with an old friend who still works at a company that 
now does supply to Blurb. They have done a lot of innovations for POD 
book manufacturing. Tomorrow I will ask him what the options are and 
whether it could be interesting to develop more for quality B&W printing.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst Dinkla

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