Digital BW, The Print

Hello Richard,

>'Some of the newer printers like the Epson 2200 may be able to 
>spread two inks, black and light black, across the full black 
>to white range without dots. It is being worked on now by a few 
>of the digital B&W experts.'

Carl Schofield and Steve Karafyllakis (maybe others) have been
experimenting with this, and I've done a tiny bit based on Steve's
results, and am getting ready to try some new things soon.

The 2K approach has proved itself as far as producing a smooth result.
 One of the benefits is it preserves much of the luminance of a BO
print.

The problem is tone color, caused by LK being much warmer than MK
(even moreso when using Eboni).  So the MK-LK prints are very warm and
need to be cooled off.  Various cooler mixtures for LK have been tried
with good success, the prints look great.  The problem is that a blend
that looks good on one paper doesn't look good on another, so it's
very limiting.  I'm convinced that the ultimate 2K solution will be
with an LK that is a diluted MK, without any colors added at all. 
Problem is that nobody (that I know of) has successfully found a way
to do this.  There are some ideas floating about which I hope to try
soon.

Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm