Digital BW, The Print

From my experience it helps to select ink limits where the darkest 
patch for each ink has good separation from the next darkest patch. 
This will not be the darkest that the ink will print, but will help 
eliminate flat spots in the grey ramp. This seems to apply to the black 
ink as well and is made up by checking the 100% black ink overide for 
the the very bottom of the scale.

So I guess what I'm saying is that by not maximizing ink coverage, one 
helps the natural linearity of the grey ramp. Even with a four ink 
1160, I need a  loupe to see dots in the midtones with this approach.

-bruce


On Wednesday, Jul 13, 2005, at 10:50 US/Pacific, 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> Message: 15
>    Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:13:03 +0100
>    From: Steve Kale <stevekale@...>
> Subject: Re: Re: Partitioning greys - an ink limit question
>
>  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.
>