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RE: [Digital BW] C84 & EZ Inks

2004-04-12 by Paul Roark

Don,

>With the EZ ink system, do you just send a full-color RGB file to be
>printed?
>Or do you convert it to monochrome as with a "regular" printer?

Since the ink tone & densities are the same in each color position (unless
you are mixing the neutral and warm tone carts) a color image will often
look fine printed without first being converted to grayscale.  However,
since the yellow tends to print lighter in the midtones than the other inks,
yellows may be very light.  Also, the color image may be using mostly one
ink instead of 3 to build up density.  As such, the RGB version of a file
may print with less smoothness than the grayscale version.

Do some comparisons and let us know how they look.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com

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