Digital BW, The Print

> From: byushooter <jellerbe@...>

> 
> Steve, I am using piezo carbon sepia inks and QTR and was just asking
> myself the same question as you.  I asked Tom Moore on the QTR forum
> and he said it didn't really matter.  My K maxes out at around 65% and
> the other inks at 85%.  He said to just use 65% and not sweat it.
> 
> I asked him about printing the ink separation page at 65% and then
> again at 85% and then comparing/measuring the densities of the lighter
> inks (off the 85% page) against the K on the 65% page.

This is exactly the exercise I was going through.

> When creating 
> the curve, I was going to put the ink limit for the K at 65% and the
> others at 85% and then linearize.  Tom said I didn't really need to
> bother with all of that.
> 


I am sorry but I don't know who Tom Moore is. Sorry Tom. At any rate, this
is the question I am thinking about.  From a very basic level, it would make
sense to ensure maximum ink coverage throughout the scale and that would
imply running the lighter inks further up the scale (then you get your
'mid-tone' density through more ink rather than less).  Whether from a
practical point of view it makes a difference I don't know.  But if people
see benefit in more than 3 greys then this would imply that there is benefit
in at least using 3 fully.