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Re: [Digital BW] Re: How many shades of grey?

2005-06-16 by Steve Kale

Unless you have a white ink...


> From: Steve Kale <stevekale@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:08:41 +0100
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: How many shades of grey?
> 
> How do you adjust an ink set for paper tone?  No way that I know of...
> 
> 
>> From: john dean <deanwork2003@...>
>> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
>> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 01:00:57 -0000
>> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
>> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: How many shades of grey?
>> 
>> This could really be something. I am very curious. Fact is even with fiber
>> darkroom prints they were never really neutral. They always had casts of
>> some kind, green, blue, brown, selenium, but always a little of something and
>> the print developer had a big impact on that. These new Piezzo inks may very
>> well be the first truely neutral mono imaging we've had, apart from offset
>> printing or possibly silkscreen and photo litho.
>> 
>> I really like the idea of letting the media add the only hint of color.

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