Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "pr_roark" 
<pr_roark@...> wrote:
>
> By the way, one obviously cannot have 2 inks of the same density in 
QTR 
> as "gray" inks and expect the semi-automatic paritioning algorithm to 
> deal with it.  I've found, however, with printers that have large 
> numbers of inks that one is better off with multiple partitioning 
> sequences.  That is, rather than have 8 gray inks, set up 2 separate 
> profiles of different combinations of them (or, I suppose, having 
some 
> called a "Toner" would work).  In an initial test on my 2200, I made 
2 
> profiles with 4 inks each (including the black in both).  I then 
> printed with both profiles at 50%, and it resulted in a smoother 
print 
> than a single 7-gray-ink profile.
>

Ah.. that is actually a nice simple trick. I'm currently focus on 
getting my new 3800 back from repair and get it up and running with the 
CIS. But once that is done, I will try to get my idle R220 set up with 
C6. I'm sure this trick will come in handy.

Joost