Digital BW, The Print

Jim,

Especially in quads where perhaps three shades of grey may be 
adequate. Maybe an RGB printer with tritone greys?

Martin


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "J. Arthur Davis" 
<jarthurdavis@e...> wrote:
> 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@v...
> support@i...
> Fine art pigment printmaker
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Culbertson" <danculb@b...>
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y...>
> 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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Polls and
> other resources as they are often being updated. The page is at:
> >
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint
> >
> >
> >
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