Digital BW, The Print

on 9/5/2002 10:29 PM, DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com at
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 03:59:51 -0000
> From: "jrandall1149" <jrandall@...>
> Subject: Re: BW densities  ?? The Rest of the MIS FS Story
> 
> Alex:
> 
> You wrote:  >And, if one was to print a color photo directly with a
> Hex grey set of inks, it Is required for the magenta to be the darker
> ink for image fidelity.
> 
> Is your goal to develop a B/W inkset with the positions and densities
> that you can use to directly print a 24-bit RGB color image and get a
> natural looking grayscale picture without first converting to 8-bit
> grayscale or 24-bit grayscale and *colorizing* it with partitioning
> curves?  
> 
> Jeff Randall


I just had a thought. Has anyone tried loading only black (black position),
dark grey (cyan position), light grey (light cyan position) in a six ink
printer?  The idea is that you colorize the whole greyscale image to cyan
and let the epson driver take care of the partitioning.

To make this a variable tone printer, add toned grey inks to the magenta
chanels and a little magenta to the image to achieve the tone. Still letting
the epson driver handle the partitioning of the inks.
 

What do you'all experimenters think?
-Bruce