Digital BW, The Print

> Well, as always when I get settled into certain materials and workflows,
> something interesting comes along to consume
> all my time with testing. I don't feel comfortable directly quoting people,
> but for those interested in another pigment quad/
> hex ink as well as color, check this out-
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InkOptions/message/62
> Haven't tried it yet.
> Tyler

Very interesting!  I had very good luck with experiments using a Red Green
and Blue inkset to get easy neutral grays through a conventional RGB driver
but I was worried about the stability of those colors since I mixed them
from Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow inks rather than true ink pigment colors.
Using RGB colors causes less color drift since they have a much smaller
gamut when printed together in equal amounts but still leave the ability to
do some serious tinting/toning with a curve or two.  Looks like those RGB
inks might be good grayscale inks for small droplet four color printers (the
3000 does better with a ink tone partitioning approach rather than a low
gamut approach so the multi-tone set would still be best for that).  I also
*love* the idea of a blue and violet ink for color printers -- might
actually get a darn decent purple out of it for a change!  Not sure how to
use those in conventional printers though so I anxiously await that next
generation of 8 channel printers (with two blacks they may well approach the
CcMmYKkk perfect printer I've been waiting for).  Possibly that will mean a
choice of CcMmYyKk or CMYOGBVK printer setups depending on desire for a
photo results or high saturation graphics results. Since I'm still up to my
ears in experiments I will probably wait for the new printers rather than
try another inkset in the old ones.  But more options has to be good for
fine art variety in the overall sense.

Dan Culbertson