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Re: [Digital BW] Re: ABW and Color management with R2400

2006-07-22 by Bruce Watson

Clayton Jones wrote:
> The 0,0 setting uses a mixture of all the inks in a balance that
> creates, supposedly, a neutral BW print.  The resulting over all tone
> actually varies on different papers.  It can also vary among different
> images on a given paper.  That may sound strange, but the tone
> actually shifts slightly along the ramp.  So two images, one with high
> contrast and the other with broad midtone areas, printed on the same
> paper at the same setting, can look a bit different on the warm/cool
> scale.
I was beginning to think I was the only one who saw this. This is the 
reason that I don't like printing B&W with color inks. It's the reason I 
don't like variable tone B&W inksets. I much prefer a fixed tone inkset 
like the Cone PiezoTones. Isn't it nice that we have so many choices?
-- 
Bruce Watson















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