Digital BW, The Print

At 10:20 AM 3/17/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>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
>
>
Martin,

Good thinking, it would save wasting ink. My experience with water color
will help some. I am using a 980 printer for b/w now and don't know if 1160
sepia-VM curves apply to it. 

I wish someone knowledgeable about litho inks could instruct us on their
alchemy.  My friends doing intaglio and other fine art printing go merrily
about their way with any color in the rainbow without all the fuss we are
saddled with. I'm tempted to get a can of brown ink and some MIS base and
just go for it.

AZ