Digital BW, The Print

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From: <tyler@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 4:28 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Studioprint and UT


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Ernst
Dinkla" <E.Dinkla@c...> wrote:
...
> Will Studioprint accept CMYK files and print them ? Through a
> separate workflow that has linearisation, black generation and
> curves ?

Yes. It can be configured any number of ways. Though the
mentioned inks aren't directly supported in an easy way, there
are certainly many aproaches that couold work.
Like any other RIP with advanced controls, one would be hard
pressed to call any particular ink "unsupported". However a lot
of familiarity with the software is required and some ceative
thinking as well.
Tyler


Tyler,

I don't have to tell you what the possibilities are :-) On the
other hand I got the inpression that you are no longer seeking
the more mindbending workflows.
Anyway there's small applicattion in the archive that will
convert a greyscale file into a CMYK file (just copies the
greyscales to 4 channels and nothing else, so no black generation
etc). In the Wasatch SoftRip I have set the black generation from
0 to 100 %  and control the Ultratone VM only with the curves on
top of the linearisation of the CMYK heads. Where Dan, you and
others did most of that in PS and then loaded the CMYK file in
PressReady etc I have done the curve separations at the end of
the process. There's still a compromise that I can't use the
three CMY channels together as that triggers the black generation
(which is disturbing the straight approach of the curves) so I
have to use CcYK or MmCcK and bring the 4th curve to zero. That
is a limitation but it works on a PC and the rest of the RIP's
functions are very nice.

Ernst