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Re: [Digital BW] FIne Art B&W and number of black inks

2006-08-11 by john dean

The answer to that is six. You can make beautiful monochrome prints
with 3 or 4 dilutions but Hextone is better. One day someone will fill
one of those Canon 12 channel machines with two sets of 6 and that it
is going to be amazing.(remember I said that)
john




> >My question ...:
> >which is a reasonable number of gray densities needed for 
> >an inkset to make top notch B&W prints?

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