Digital BW, The Print

Sanaka,

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

>... 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, ...

Exactly.  The old hextone VMs are just extensions of the quad VM inksets.  I
now have a 1280 as the base machine.  So, the options are wider.

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

Actually, they have been looking a an affordable RIP solution.  So, in that
respect, what I'm doing may not be all that well received -- as it's free
competition.  However, what I'm doing allows page-layout and other programs
to do direct printing.  I'm not sure if the MIS RIP solution can do this.

Paul
http://www.PaulRoark.com
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--- 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



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