Digital BW, The Print

> I was hoping you'd jump in on this one Austin, you're right of
> course.

I'm going to frame that ;-)

> I think of how the inks are mixed (or not) as being
> accomplished by either ramping in the driver,

What do you mean by "ramping in the driver"?

> Or in the case of a CMYK RIP, preparation of
> the 4 channel file, and/or profiles again.

I absolutely no NOTHING about RIPs, I know what RIP stands for (Raster Image
Processor), but I've never really paid any attention to them...

> To me, these are
> channel adjustments at some stage of the data flow, which is then
> turned into dots (dithering). Two separate issues.
> Make sense?

Nope.  Perhaps because I don't understand CMYK RIPS?