Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, CorrPro96@... wrote:
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> Tyler's comments were to the effect that he used 5, 6 and I think 7 blacks  
> with a variety of partitions
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> I asked Tyler about his ink partitioning on this forum, but he didn't  
> respond. Maybe it was Scotch after all. <g>

Richard, right now I think the Scotch is in order... unfortunately for me it always leads to a 
second course.. excedrin...

They were all 4 partitions, but there were multiple inks often applied to those partitions. 
Since the later Epsons have enough tanks to hold 2 quad inksets with a shared K, I have 
the selenium set, and a modified WarmNeutral set installed, 7 inks. The RIP lets you assign 
any tank to any quad partition (even QTR does this, I'm sure IJC and others as well), so it's 
easy to do an all Selenium quad setup, and an all warm setup. But then many others are 
possible when you let your brain loose. Warm/Selenium splits, assigning more than one 
tank to a partition lets you do blends. So now you can do splits, blends, any combination, 
any partition, or not, think of the possibilities. What Jon is doing with Custom mono sets in 
a 12 ink Roland for the Ashes and Snow prints makes this look like child's play.
Any more info and I'll have to kill you.
I was after the different visual effects of subtle hue shifts, in different directions, on the 
dimensionality of the visual image on paper. I don't know if anyone else there had shifting 
hue examples so I can see how they may have looked different from the others.
I single hue approach is obvioulsy beautiful too, I'm very drawn to it as well and don't 
think it takes a second seat, I find it to be image dependant. I'm very apreciative of the 
comments about these experiements and how they worked with Amadou's photograph.
Again, these prints were not the same as the one I scanned for the test I posted, it was a 
straight single set quad with the underprinted K.
Tyler