Digital BW, The Print

Paul Roark wrote:

> My attempts to cool matte blacks with cyan have resulted in what I consider
> substandard dmax figures.  Actually, one attraction of the k3 approach to me
> is that with a rip I can pour in cyan in the deep shadows and do the best
> job yet of reducing the cross-over.

Use a linearisation target with a control on ink bleeding 
then. It could mean a lot of cyan or rather cyan + magenta you 
need there and the black ink amount is already high. There's a 
limit to an overall cool print with the warm carbon based inks 
and the pigmentation of CM inks. A solution would be to go 
back to the two toner blues of the early UT VM but with an 
even higher pigmented blue ink for the shadow range. Even with 
the UT VM on a 9000 and the Wasatch RIP there was a limit in 
how much ink you can use to cool the shadows.

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           Ernst Dinkla


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