Digital BW, The Print

Hi Eric;

This will work, I don't see why it shouldn't but with all those 
channels firing you'd likely lose one of the defining 
characteristics of BO- namely the mid-tone & highlight luminosity 
that results from allowing some paper white to show through the 
dots. 

One interesting thing about QTR is that the 'calibration' mode 
target allows you to see which channels are banding, and which are 
smooth. I would suggest that as a starting point, you could put your 
Eboni and LK in the two smoothest channels, and put diltuted warm 
and cool toners in 2 or three of the others. I suppose you could put 
a PK in one channel also, and have glossy printing available as 
well. In other words, something similar to Paul's inksets, but BO or 
2K, and run with QTR on your choice of channels.

If you set up your curves on one of the glossy paper settings, you 
will have 'photo RPM' available (that;s the 5770 dither) which 
produces very fine, smooth BO and even smoother 2K, assuming no 
dither banding





 In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Eric Ashworth 
<brigsby707@c...> wrote:
> That was what I was alluding to regarding splitting up the 
channels  
> for 2K work, that is black and light black say split 3 channels K 
to  
> 3 channels LK in a 6 ink printer or , 3 K, 4 LK in a 7 color. 
Also,  
> depending on ink usage, you could use more channels for the LK if 
it  
> were used up faster than the K ink.
> 
> The more I think about this, the more I'm thinking I might be 
picking  
> up an R200 to experiment with.
> 
> I think I'd probably use Eboni for the K & then use the dark or 
mid- 
> grey from the UT-FSN inkset. Unless someone had a better 
suggestion.
> 
> Eric
> www.ericashworth.net
> 
> 
> > > Why not load half the carts with black, and half with diluted 
black
> > > (you may have to tint the diluted black to get neutrality). 
Set  
> > it up
> > > with QTR, and you'll have a machine that has better tonality 
than  
> > just
> > > BO, runs for ages without a reload, and when you do need to 
reload,
> > > all the blacks will be running out at about the same time, so 
reload
> > > them all.
> 
> 
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