Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven 
Karafyllakis <stevek@e...>" <stevek@e...> wrote:
> Actually, considering most people here are using IP5 for grey-scale 
> inks, you're probably better off asking on the wide-format forum-
> there's a lot of discussion there about the 7600 and rips, 

I was under the impression that most people here who were using the 
IP RIP were using it as an ALTERNATIVE to grayscale inks, because of 
the alleged ability to use some combination of inks that compensates 
for metamerism.   Daniel Staver, for instance, says it doesn't use 
the yellow ink. Another poster here last week says it doesn't use one 
of the magenta's.  

From the long discussion last week ("WHEN...(etc)") I had the 
impression that there are 3 predominant approaches to black and white 
printing here -  quadtone/hextone systems, black-only, and RIPs.  
Obviously it's possible to combine them, as you suggest above, but in 
that thread there seemed to be plenty of photographers who have 
settled on one of the three as their main approach.