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RE: [Digital BW] Re: QuadTone RIP: What are your "neutral" B&W settings?

2004-06-03 by Daniel Staver

> I realize, however, that neutrality is 
> subjective. It's no longer 
> the light purplish of the pure CoolSe tone, but it's also not 
> as, well, gray as the 
> reference prints.  Knowing nothing about color theory, I 
> don't know if I'm 
> saying "I'd like to see some more magenta/cyan or whatever."  

I think what you're after is the possibility to change the amounts of
cyan and magenta in relation to each other in addition to changing the
total amount of toner applied to the print.

This is exactly what I was experienting with when I made a cyan toner
for my UT7 inkset instead of the sepia toner. I found that with a little
bit added cyan the prints, to my eyes, looked more neutral than the
standard purplish selenium tone that seems to be so popular nowadays.

I'm not sure what it would take to support this in QTR, we're really
talking about using a mixture of three profiles instead of two, or at
least be able to run two toners on top of each other in one profile.

--
Daniel Staver
http://daniel.staver.no

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