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[Digital BW] Re: What would be a good B&W setup?

2003-05-09 by Luke

That's one option...dedicating your printer to print black and white and replacing the supplied inks with a continuous feed ink system that uses only shades of grey.

The other option is to use the standard ink cartridges and a RIP that gets neutral black and white from those inks.
So far, I'm happy with ImagePrint, I get color and black and white from the same printer with the same inks.

There may be other options too!

Luke.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@a...> wrote:
> Luke writes:
> 
> > When printing black and white, the RIP doesn't
> > use the yellow ink, so metamerism is pretty
> > much eliminated as far as I'm concerned.
> 
> I'm confused.  I thought that, when printing black and white, all of the
> color inks were replaced with special inks that are different shades of gray
> and black (?).

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