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Re: [Digital BW] Jerry and the purples

Re: [Digital BW] Jerry and the purples

2001-09-21 by Jerry Olson

Bob, You probably will have to tweak the epson sliders, but with MIS
color archival inks, I get very good black and white prints. 

I needed to add about 8 magenta and minus 5 cyan to that purple bl4
color. They print great with that tweak.

Jerry





rbollini@... wrote:
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> Sounds like a band, doesn't it?
> 
> Jerry, a couple of weeks ago you were showing some enthusiasm for the
> greyscale yielded by the purple Pantone duotones supplied with PShop
> 6(the fourth one especially, as I remember). I've tried a couple and
> tweaked number 4, printing with Darngoodinks (dye) on Photo Paper in
> an 1160. They work well for this paper too, and like you, I wonder if
> duotones hold much promise for those of us with one printer loaded
> with colour inks and the urge to translate some images into BW.
> However, you haven't said a word about duotones since. Have you had
> second thoughts?
> Bob Bollini
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