Digital BW, The Print

> I have actually found that for the 1280 class of printer, you
> actually need only 3 tones (black, dark, and medium) to get very good
> prints. The folks at lincolninks.com have been advocating this
> approach for quite a while.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Shilesh

Lincoln Ink also stated that their goal was to match the gray tone of OEM
CMY with their middle gray and the tone of OEM cm with their light gray.
They wanted to leverage the partitioning built in to the hex Epson driver
for their tri-tone inkset. I still think that if the transition from K to
CMY, and from C to c and M to m don't work as the Epson driver expects, then
there will be problems that only a successful partitioning workflow can
surmount.

I have long thought that if we could get a quad or hex set to match the tone
(density) of one of the popular pigment color inksets, then we could use
profiling software for the color inkset & use that profile interchangeably
with both sets. I just don't know if I am ready to start mixing my own inks
to try to test this theory...
-BK