Digital BW, The Print

Cool, Paul! Or warm, or anything in between :-)

Part of why I've not taken the plunge into quad/hex tone B&W (I'm 
doing black only ala Clayton Jones for now, I do color too - MIS 
original archival ink) is the observation that the variable tone 
inksets (VM and VMS from MIS) require only 4 inks - seemingly 3 
blacks plus toner - to go either cool>neutral or neutral>warm/sepia. 
Reasonably then, one could go all the way cool>sepia with 3 blacks 
plus 2 toners, even leaving an extra black (well, gray) position in a 
6 color printer. 

I asked MIS about it and they said "it's coming." Is this to what 
they refer? Which inks are you using for it?

Peace,
Sanaka



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" 
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:
> OK, now for something entirely different.
> 
> I have been printing (on the 1280) and controlling a variable-tone 
inkset
> from a grayscale file -- in Word!
> 
> It's time to break Photoshop's monopoly.
> 
> Well, the reality is that the driver sliders can control this dual-
toner
> inkset over a range from quite warm to selenium/neutral and cooler.
> However, with Photoshop curves the inkset goes all the way to 
sepia.  So, it
> can be something a novice can print without having to buy PS, or we 
can use
> different curves to do a broader range, split-tones, and whatever 
profiling.
> 
> I think this approach could be big.
> 
> Paul
> http://www.PaulRoark.com