Digital BW, The Print

Tim,

The Blatner and Frasier book is invaluable 
for understanding color management and 
how photoshop works and I'd recommend it 
even if you had zero interest in duotones.

I get the feeling that you are actually 
interested in duotone simulations using the 
colored inks.  This and neutral printing with 
colored inks is probably the ultimate difficult 
thing to do well.  That's why a real duotone, 
tritone or quadtone solution is valuable.  
Harder to start but easy to print once set up.  

I did get Yarc to write a 6 color independent 
manual channel driver option for their RIP 
for the Spectratones before they kinda 
dissapeared.  

Anyway if you want to do duotone 
simulations, "just" get a neutral grayscale, 
the adjust the color cast in curves in the 
individual rgb channels.  It's direct, simple 
but difficult to do well image to image.

I doubt there is an easier answer.  

Allen Maertz
lincolninks.com


Message: 4
   Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 14:46:17 -0000
   From: tyork@...
Subject: Duotone Workflows was Re: Tim 
York: re:papers

Martin, 

As I mentioned I e-mailed View Camera but 
they didn't know anything 
about the article. I'm not sure where to go 
now. I read Allen's 
comment to you but don't have the book. Oh 
well, C'est la vie.

Tim