Digital BW, The Print

jim hayes wrote:

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>I've been thinking of doing some b&w prints with small areas of spot 
>color added which IP5 folks tell me is possible IF I run IP5 to print 
>RGB.
>Jim H.
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Dunno if you need IP5 to do it...

Haven't tried it with a 2200, BUT amazingly, just recently I ran tests 
on 13 x 19 MIS VM Sepia B&W images printed on EAM..

I printed the B&W portion  on a 1270, then moved over and printed JUST 
the spot color I wanted via Lysonics in a 1280.

Results: there was no appreciable skew and the spot color came out 
exactly in the right spot.

Greg McCoy of EPSON looked at them at PhotoExpo Plus East and we both 
agreed that the registration was "tack on"..  I wouldn't do it for color 
separations, but for the small areas of spot color it worked fine.

The amazing thing to Greg, Bill Gore,  and I was how well it worked even 
given the differing firmware and driver in each printer..

Anyone contemplating printing which may require two runs through an 
EPSON desktop printer should keep these results in mind.

Just make sure you let the prints dry down from the first run before 
doing the second run to keep tracks down and avoid ink deposition on 
transport rollers.

Keith

 

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