Digital BW, The Print

garrysarre wrote:

> Keith
>
> What sort of ink are you using and what colours are you using with
> in the quadtones. My Duo attempt was terrible
>
I can say my first duo attempts were horrendous as well.. But I never 
really liked the adobe sepia tritones..  They are actually "bass 
ackwards"...  In a traditional sepia print, the lighter tones will go 
brownest first as they get sulfidized. In the Adobe Tri-tones, the 
midtones and near highlights are still gray while the darkest areas are 
brownest.. go figure..

If you want, I am more than willing to zip up my quadtones, e-mail them 
over offlist, and let you try them out..  At the least, they may provide 
some ideas for starting points for your own curves/quadtones.. If you 
have any luck with them, and there is interest from the group, I will 
post them and the workflow..

I've pretty much named them by either type and number or a distinctive 
name -- one quad reminded more of khaki than sepia when I finished with 
it (but I still liked the look for some images).. So, it  got named "Khaki"

I think you may be surprised by the color inks I've used in some 
positions of the quadtone curves   ;-)

Remember, these are not meant as ink quadtones -- Instead, they are 
meant to be applied to a greyscale image, have the new levels then 
adjusted, and converted to RGB where you do a final level adjustment for 
gamut, etc. b4 printing to an RGB printer..

They were initially developed for use on a dye sub printer, but should 
work with any basic RGB gamut inkset (assuming you correct for that 
gamut prior to rendering a final print)..

They do work with OEM Epson Six Color and Canon six color inksets..  One 
other note.. If you do use them... IGNORE the color names displayed in 
the ink/curves dialogue box when loading these.. Those names generally 
bear little relation to reality..

 Keith