I don't have Photoshop curves posted for the option of having UT-FS-Y in the yellow spot, but in general, I have the Blue curve (controlling the yellow ink spot -- FS-Y) carry the image entirely until about 229 on the horizontal axis, where I start the other inks (Red and Green curves). As an example, for Kirkland, a neutral curves set I use has the following points from 0% (255) to 25% (191): (255, 254), (251, 187), (247, 168), (242, 147), (229, 99), (216, 88), (204, 83), and (192, 82). For glossy Kirkland, I taper it off to (127, 146), (25, 0). For a matte paper the blue curve has to be full on at (0, 0) to help turn on the black ink. So, for a matte paper it'd be either raised and then lowered again or go about level, perhaps at a bit higher point so that the other inks were not limited too much. The Red and Green curves, as noted, start at 229, and are raised about 5 at 191 and about 15 at 127 relative to the starting curves that did not use FS-Y. I don't have a good comparison here, because I used the Ilford curves for Kirkland, which were not right on to start with. Print a 21-step with the current, starting curves and just eyeball the 50% and 25% patch densities to see how much the Red and Green curves need to be raised to offset the addition of the FS-Y. Hope this helps. Paul www.PaulRoark.com
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RE: [Digital BW] Curve for UT7 with UTFS-Y
2005-08-28 by Paul Roark
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