Digital BW, The Print

Steve,

what Joe is referring to is the use of dark gray as the dominant ink
from the darkest tones to 100%. Some C and M may also kick in to
raise dMax but only in the very deep blacks. 
Anyone with IJC can open one of these profiles and look at the
curves. What Joe discovered is that you can get pretty deep black
in glossy prints with this combination and skip the Photo K altogether.
The idea is you leave the Matte K and use it as always for matte
prints, but you don't need to swap it out for the PK to do glossy.
Pretty nifty.

Antonis



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale <stevekale@b...> 
wrote:
> Interesting - what's the "blend" at the black end?
> 
> 
> > From: jbowhaus <joeberndt@v...>
> 
> > 
> > Updates for both the MAC and XP version are available as a free
> > download to all registered users.  These new versions support the
> > R2400, and ship with profiles for both Matt and Glossy papers.
> > The Glossy profiles are built in a unique way, they don't use the
> > Black ink. A special blending of inks achieves a D-Max of 2.32on most
> > papers without the need of Photo Black.  So with the Matt black ink
> > installed, a user can switch between Matt and Glossy printing without
> > the added expense of having to switch the Black ink.
> > 
> > Joe Berndt