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[Digital BW] Re: Ultrachrome K3 inks?

2005-04-29 by Carl Schofield

Someone read the shutterbug article:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/epson2200/message/6708
Three shades of black and driver control for B&W printing with the 3 inks.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "dfaprinting" <dfaprinting@y...> 
wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "steve_bye" 
> <steve_bye@c...> wrote:
> > I put some of the text from Carl's link into a program that identifies
> > languages and it chose Croatian or Serbian. Then I used a web page
> > translator (
> > http://quickfound.net/webdev/language_translation_tools_index.html) to
> > translate the article from both languages to English. The results
> > demonstrate that computer-generated translation technology has a ways 
> to go.
> > 
> > This definately looks like a new line of printers, and they appear to 
> be
> > targeting B&W printing with three B&W inks, though it is not clear if 
> they
> > are different densities or hues.
> > 
> > Here is some of the cryptic text.
> 
> 
> I would be nice if the mixing is controlled in the hardware, and not 
> the driver, but also user adjustable. If not that, then have all three 
> channels available to a RIP so that you gain back the user adjustment 
> of the mixing.
> 
> And if that B/W output comes through, can we all say... About time! 
> What took so long?

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