Digital BW, The Print

I got a nice chocolate brown from the MIS VM Sepia-Neutral inkset. I 
forgot to change an RGB file to grayscale and back again before 
curving the file. As a result a creek which had been running green 
began to run chocolate while a bright yellow tree at the water's edge 
turned a lovely orange. A dog and a weathered log look more or less 
normal, and they were both lighter shades of brown to begin with.

Sam McCandless             samcc@...


>Alan,
>
>One of the interesting things to do is to go into the Photoshop custom color
>mixer, find a brown you like and look at the CYM and luminance numbers. It
>appears like you could get a nice chocolate brown with just Y and M with the
>appropriate amount of neutral black.
>
>I have been playing with the Sepia-VM set and you can get some rather nice
>browns with this, so you might want to check this out before you start
>mixing your own.
>
>As time permits I want to play with this by adjusting the amount and ratio
>of Y and M in the toner position ink. One thing Paul has cautioned me about
>is that the inks don't go together in a tidy, linear fashion and quite a bit
>of trial and error may be required. If several of us work on different
>approaches we should come up with a wonderful array of choices. Anything I
>discover, good or bad, I will post.
>
>Martin