Digital BW, The Print

Carl,

I haven't played with that particular inkset enough to know. I was
mostly involved in beta testing previous candidates. But from
what I've seen in experiments conducted by others, if the 
grayscale is largely made up of the small gamuts with some
quads added, spectral graphs begin to flatten out quite a bit -
meaning they don't show the peaks often associated with
metameric grays.
And I would think that a good sepia should be possible - just
haven't done it myself.

Antonis



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield 
<scho@m...> wrote:
> Antonis,
> 
> Thanks for the info on the inks.  Using toners to generate warm/cool 
> profiles shouldn't be too difficult, but trying to eliminate metamerism 
> with the small gamut toners sounds like it might be more challenging.  
> Have you been able to generate neutral prints without metamerism?  
> Also, can you produce a good sepia with this inkset or would it be 
> necessary to substitute the warm quads (plus some small gamut M and Y) 
> for this?
> 
> Carl
> 
> On Saturday, August 28, 2004, at 01:10  PM, Antonis wrote:
> 
> > Carl,
> >
> > I don't know officially what's in the kit, but it should be neutral 
> > quads
> > plus small gamuts. Not sure if it includes the dilute small gamuts or
> > the full strength. It's the only way to deal with the metamerism of the
> > quads, and not have bright colors to profile or show dots. Should
> > work fine on newer machines as far as highlight dots go, but
> > with 7000 - type heads may not be as smooth depending on profiling.
> > Of course, they are marketing the kit to 7-ink printers, so that's not
> > an issue.
> >
> > The official release came out  8/19/04. You can read it at dp&i:
> > http://www.dpandi.com/digitalnews/digitalnews.html
> > (scroll down)
> >
> > I expect that they will ship the kit with profiles for the Darkroom 
> > Glossy
> > which should make life easier for anyone new to profiling - especially
> > with three toners.
> >
> >
> > Antonis
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield
> > <scho@m...> wrote:
> >> Looks like this has been or will shortly be released for the 2200/7600
> >> printers.  There is a link on the following web site to a pdf
> >> description of the system (software, inks, papers).  They don't say
> >> specifically what the 7 inks are, but it appears as though they might
> >> be the quad blacks (neutral or warm?) plus C, M , and Y inks for
> >> toning.  Perhaps Antonis can elaborate on the composition of this
> >> inkset.
> >> http://www.adventurecamphoto.com/lyson.htm
> >
> >
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