Digital BW, The Print

> It sounds like as long as you use a tonerless solution (e.g., piezotones)
> this may be a good product...but if you want to use variable toning within a
> single inkset...its probably not the best way to go...because you don't have
> control over partitioning.

You can control, what we call, the crossovers which allows you to define where a 
particular inks begins to cut in.  I suspect that this is what you are calling 
particianing.  I am definitely not the one to describe such a process 
but it is completely open to your personal interpretation.

And yes, this opens up split toning on a device such as the 7600.  By loading, let's 
say, Museum Black plus the highlight and mids from two other sets, they may be 
blended throughout the scale offerring a whole new level in artistic interpretation.  An 
obvious scenario to many traditional photographers would be a Platinum-process 
emualtion using a selenium or cool neutral set plus a carbon sepia or warm neutral 
set, blending the cool highlights into the warm three quarter tones.  It's advanced but 
within the software's capabilities.

Plus, you have a single printer that can print three or more different color stories.

> Is there also no way to blend between profiles?

Let me say that we, or better yet you, can blend color-sets.

It helps tremendously not to think of what we do as being profile-centric.  A profile is 
only a characterization of a device and media's three dimensional color space.  What 
we are talking about here is not a three dimensional color space, therefor we aren't 
generating and applying profiles to control the process.  All StudioPrint is doing is 
bringing the printer to a known, quantifiable and reproducable state while limiting 
the inks to the appropriate levels on a per channel basis optimizing image quality.

This is why what we do can not be softproofed or viewed in Photoshop.  We aren't 
working in RGB which Photoshop is (softproof output to monitor).

I hope this helps a bit.

Cheers,

Robert
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