Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Dan Culbertson 
<danculb@b...> wrote:
> > 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

Dan,

Does this mean we get to work in CMYOGBVK space? <g>

You're an expert at this kind of stuff, do you feel like developing 
some free curves and profiles for these guys so they can sell their 
ink?

Theroy sounds good but where's the desktop printers and user 
interface?

Martine