I mistakenly buried this idea in an earlier post... In View Camera Magazine ( www.viewcamera.com ) Craig Blacklock explains "double-pass quadtone printing." Beautiful prints of nudes and nature. I wonder if it will work on common 2200 and similar printers using OEM pigments? I've started playing with the idea...using test photos, my 2200 places dots well within 1mm of where they belong on 9" test prints...maybe far more accurately than that...no halos showing out-of-register.... ...for example a low contrast green pass and a very high contrast black pass from a B&W negative I've made an accurately registered two-color silkscreen-style image ...incredibly precise considering it's a totally unmodified printer... If this can be managed with subtlety in a common desktop printer like 2200, using Photoshop on conventional images it should increase Dmax tremendously and make these printers much more impressive. Has anybody made this work?
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Two Pass Printing ?
2005-02-14 by Djon