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Re: Inks for Lustre papers--a question directed at Paul Roark

2008-08-21 by brouwerkent

Paul

First an apology if I am beating this topic to death, but a couple more questions about 
choosing or creating my ideal lustre set.

My aim is Ilford Gold Fibre on 1400 using QTR.  My ideal tonality would move from Warm/ 
Neutral Shadows, Neutral Midtones and up to Cool/Neutral highlights.  

I note that on the UTRC set, there are 3 separate sets...warm, cool and neutral.  But my 
ideal set is not one temperature...I want a split.  I am also making the assumption that the 
UTRC set are greys...not the strong toner color of the earlier sets.  Since the gamma is so 
good on these lustre papers, seems like warm, cool or neutral shades are plenty strong 
without distinct color toners.

First, my assumption is that these UTRC sets each have same basic degree of color 
temperature with different dilutions....yes???

 So I am wondering if I could start with my black position one of the new PKneutral (black 
being presumably neutral), 2nd ink a warm dark grey, 3rd a neutral mid grey, and then 4th 
and 5th warm grey and cool grey toners and a glop as the 6th position.  I would rely on 
the ink overlap to create a transition and use the toners to smooth the transitions.

Does this sound like a reasonable idea?  If so, please advise how proportionally diluted 
each ink is in the UTRC set, since MIS does not show patches of these inks.    And are 
these inks diluted with glop?  Wondering from your earlier responses if I even need glop 
position if glop is in the toner positions if the lighter shades are diluted with glop.

If these are diluted with glop, then I assume I could buy a bottle of dark grey in 
warm,neutral and cool to make my own dilutions.

I am wanting to move away  from the old style  Light Cyan and Light Magenta toners 
towards a more subtle grey toner.   Seems like LC & LM are overkill on the lustre papers.

Does this approach make sense, assuming I want a subtle split tone.

Thanks for  you patience with my parade of questions.  

Phil

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