Digital BW, The Print

Hello folks,

I was in the process of creating QTR curves for Kirkland glossy papers
for the 1160/MIS-VM and 1160/MIS-UT-FS-Eboni combination and found the
darkest patches for the dark gray ink (cyan position) register at 1.86
and 2.06 in dMax respectively.

I was going to spray the paper so I could use matte black ink but
after finding such high dmax in the cyan position alone I thought
maybe I could create curves without using black ink at all. So I did
and got beautiful 2.06 dmax prints on Kirkland Glossy with only inks
in the cyan, magenta, and yellow position for the UT-FS ink set.

For the MIS-VM without black I thought 1.86 is pretty good but I'd
need an additional coat of spray to bring it up to the 2.06 dmax.

This is fantastic because my 4-ink printers now can print on either
matte or glossy media using a single inkset. This shows amazing
possibilities can be achieved with 6, 7, or 8 ink printers.

--nick