Digital BW, The Print

Dan:
Like you I am always looking for more color heads on new printers.

My puzzlement though is how did we accept  fine art reproductions, that were
printed for the last 100 years, using only CMYK? ( letter press and offset
presses) We purchase this art and never questioned how it was printed. It
was inexpensive and we hung it on our walls until we got tired of it. Then
we threw it out with the trash and purchased new.

Sometimes, as artists and printmakers, I think we are just too damn picky!

Jim Davis
http://www.visual-artists.com
jarthurdavis@...
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Fine art pigment printmaker
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Culbertson" <danculb@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 1:55 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: another ink option


> > 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
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