Digital BW, The Print

Hi Allen,

Thank you for your suggestions. I would like to achieve a b/w with as 
close to a selenium look as possible. I know that is difficult 
because of it's subjectivity but I think you know what i mean. The 
blue/purplish blacks and deep,rich grays that you could almost scoop 
the gray out of. Paper plays a big part to the look I'm trying to 
achieve, but if I can come close I will be happy.
 Using the duotones will also allow me to print color when I 
need/want to. If I can't get this then I will buy a second printer, 
but that still wouldn't get me my selenium-toned prints. Thanks again.


Tim 












--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., allentakichi@e... wrote:
> 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@a...
> 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