Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Charles Bandes <
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> An "automate" plugin/script for Photoshop which would:
> 
> Take a "final" greyscale file as source, give choices for various
> inksets and tones, create appropriate separation files and output a
> "ready to print" file that can go straight to the gimp drivers.

By the way, this is color management. As Dan Culbertson handily 
instructed years ago, custom CMYK profiles can be generated and sep 
curves edited into 
them. You can print through them, I've done it.
It's exactly what you're talking about, works on the fly, technology 
already implemented into Photoshop and any other CM savvy app.

Epson driver RGB methods, CMYK methods, creative use of color 
management for quads, except for a few inks, papers and tools, there is 
nothing new under 
the quad sun since Dan and most of his work was done years ago. Most of 
us are using methods he either "also" did, did better, or did first, 
and generously 
made available to all.
I guess when you reach a certain point it's not suprising that 
advancement slows, what is suprising is that most of the community 
haven't even caught up to 
him. The accumulated knowledge seems to evaporate, or be appropriated 
and made obscure by those who wish to sell it back to us.
"Dan Dan The Quadtone Man"
You should all know who he is.
A little end of year nostalgia I guess.
Tyler