Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Charles Bandes <
byronbulb@y...>" <byronbulb@y...> wrote:
> Tyler, John, this is so exciting!

Somebody noticed.

> I wonder - could the steps you're discussing (converting greyscale
> into sep files for CMYK printing) apply to the VM inkset as well as
> the more "standard" hex sets?

No reason why not.
 
> It would be a _godsend_ to be able to do away with curve files and
> work on true greyscale images with more ability to tweak the drivers.

With the current state of the driver, you'd still have to convert to a 
color file and apply curves. So you're not really any farther ahead. 
Given the 100% GCR occuring in raw CMYK mode, I'd say curves for that 
inkset will be difficult. I'm not sure there would be any particular 
advantage over the Epson driver other than working and building curves 
in CMYK is more intuitive than RGB, but your file will be 1/3 larger.
The kind of work John is trying would allow assigning color inks to 
tonal values from a grayscale file, but it's way beyond me and not 
available with the standard version of the driver dummies like me would 
be using.
Tyler