Digital BW, The Print

They removed the quadtone capability from the Photo series (it remains in
the Windows Layout series - more expensive) but it prints very good B&W in
colour mode with OEM inks.  So it's not a dedicated B&W ink set solution but
neither is Imageprint.  For the UC inks there are separate B&W and Colour
environments.  (I think this is what you are referring to.)  This was deemed
unnecessary for the K3 inks.  To quote Sarah Smith from Colorburst Tech
Support:

"We found that it was necessary to have two separate profiles (color and
b&w) for the previous UltraChrome series of printers.  A more aggressive
black generation setting produced better monochromatic images, but
sacrificed some color.  However, with the new K3 printers and the addition
of the light black ink, the same black generation setting can be used for
both types of images without sacrificing quality."

The thing I find appealing with Colorburst is that it has the Monaco engine
CMYK profiling (albeit it doesn't support my i1 !). This is a very expensive
add-on for, say, Studioprint.  SP of course seems to have enough options to
make your head swirl and also has quadtone functionality.  I would simply
say that for someone looking at a colour ink RIP then Colorburst merits a
good look and would seem to offer significantly more functionality to
someone with an X-Rite spectro than IP.


> From: Tyler Boley <tyler@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 20:24:29 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Da Vinci Fibre Gloss Paper
> 
> Last I looked Colorburst had no built in B&W mode like ColorByte.
> THis is not to say you couldn't make a custom ink setup and profile
> for decent B&W with UCs and Colorburst, but I don't believe there is a
> canned mode for it like ImagePrint.
> Tyler
>