Digital BW, The Print

New guy here.

What is ABW??

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  -----Original Message-----
  From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Bruce
Watson
  Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 8:58 AM
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: ABW and Color management with R2400


  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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