Yahoo Groups archive

Digital BW, The Print

Index last updated: 2026-04-28 22:56 UTC

Message

Another BO printing thought- Clayton

2004-07-26 by Tyler Boley

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

Attachments

Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.