Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Phil Bard" <phil@p...> 
wrote:
> Mark,
> The double hit of black your referring to is accomplished by 
running 
> two printers (ie. ink rollers) both loaded with black ink.


For some reason, I thought the double-dot black was done in the 
engraving film somehow. So that a client could save money by 
running the job on a one-color press, with a single hit of black. 
But somehow the film "tricked" it into getting more density. (But 
reading this, it sounds kinda fishy doesn't it.).

Maybe it WAS done with two passes of black. Maybe the money 
savings was running the job on a two-color press, rather than a 
four or six-color press. Maybe that was it.

But that was probably eighteen years ago when I did that job that 
way. (Way before anybody had even thought about a 
Macintosh....).

-Mark