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Re: Choice of Ink set and color management system

2006-08-01 by horstenj

Thank you all for the advice on a CMS. I'll take that into 
consideration.

Most of you did not go into the question if a workflow for B&W would be 
the same or similar to one for color. So may I conclude that the 
implicit answer is "yes"? 

Greg,

You went a bit deeper into that"
> 
> The big thing is that color managment for B/W hasn't come as far as 
CM 
> for color has, so having an identical workflow for both color and B/W 
> may be more difficult (and expensive) depending on how you look at 
it, 
> and what you want to do.

How should I read this? Do (some) color systems just don't work (if so 
which ones?) I could understand this, since calibration algorithms will 
be designed for color and I can imagine that they just break down for 
B&W. Or do they work in principle, but just don't get the ulitmate 
result? If the latter, would you consider the result just "poor" 
or "fair", or "just not the ultimate achievable"?

May I also conclude that the UT-3D ink set is the best (or only?) 
choice in my case?

Thanks again and kind regards?

Joost

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