This is an idea I've been wondering about, but since I don't do BO printing or use QTR here, or the printers/inks you guys are using, I wouldn't have the need or opportunity to try it. This assumes you have a printer with a K and a Light K ink of some kind, and QTR. Most of the systems with 2 K inks are doing a transition of some kind from the light K to the K, then depending on inkset possibly adding other inks for tint. For a BO approach, why not try running the two Ks in parallel instead of series? This would require a special driver like QTR, OPM, or a RIP, and no doubt need linearization or a gamma correction curve since it would print dark. But the possible benefits are that since there are no very light K inks are present you would still get the kind of loose dither you like that lets some paper white through, but it would also be a more complex, random, and possibly more photographic dither since it would still be running both K inks all the way up the scale. Just an idea. Tyler
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Another BO printing thought- Clayton
2004-07-26 by Tyler Boley
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