Digital BW, The Print

Why not a flatbed printer, say 3x4 feet, with 2 sets of separate 6 color
heads. The paper would be vacuum held to the bed. One set of heads would
make a pass and drop the CMYKLcLm the second head would follow and drop the
next 6 colors. Engineers are smart enough to build such printers now, the
alignment of the two set of heads can already be done. The software side of
it may be a bit of a challange. After reading Dan's post that may also be
relative simple. The big thing would be the cost. You are not going to be
able to buy this printer for $5000.00

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> > Dan, I'm always intrigued by these ideas. I keep wondering what sort of
"mode"
> > we'd need in Photoshop. Some sort of
> > multichannel mode that has custom ink setups? Then a multichannel RIP?
> > Tyler
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> Presuming you are crazy enough (see last post) to want to do the
separations
> in Photoshop what you would need is a RIP that prints spot channels.  One
> RIP manufacturer (Best RIP I think) told me that his RIP already took each
> channel as it came and printed it to each head for as many channels as you
> make and/or the printer has heads.  There are already Photoshop plugins
> that take RGB files and separate them into hex channels and other plugins
> that allow you to craft a set of "bump plates" to lay in non-CMYK inks
such
> as extra blues etc. into CMYK files as spot channels.  These are made for
> six ink presses where you can print a couple of extra inks (any inks) at a
> premium price. The pieces are probably already there for desktop printers
if
> you want to spend enough.  But I question if there will be enough people
who
> like separating their own channels to make any such solution cheap enough
to
> use with a cheap desktop printer.
>
> On the grayscale front - Red, Green, and Blue inks with three grays is
> already doable with the old Yarc 7000 Xtreme.  Not totally sure how to
> softproof profile it but I have some ideas.  That is an experiment I will
> probably try when 7000s are cheap enough for me to buy a couple.
>
> Dan
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