Digital BW, The Print

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From: <gradycarter@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 11:30 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] INK COLOR EQUAL TO IT'S SHADE COUNTERPART?


| I HAVE RECENTLY EXPLORED B&W DIGITAL PRINTING USING
| MIS QUADTONE 6 (SIX) INK CARTRIDGES...I SOON
| DISCOVERED THAT IT HAS TO FOLLOW A WORKFLOW
| DESIGNATED ON THE MIS WEB PAGE...I BOUGHT THE REFILL
| KIT AND FOUND OUT THAT THE INKS WERE NOT
| DESIGNATED TO THEIR PROPER SHADE COUNTERPART...IN
| OTHER WORDS, THE INKS CAME AS FOLLOWS: 100% BLACK,
| 75%, 50%, 45%, 25% AND 15% BLACK...ONE WOULD THINK
| THAT THE LIGHTEST SHADE OF BLACK WOULD BE
| ASSIGNED TO THE LIGHTEST SHADE OF COLOR INK...THIS IS
| NOT SO...YELLOW, THE LIGHTEST COLOR, IS ASSIGNED TO
| 50% BLACK...GO FIGURE...NO WONDER THERE IS ALL OF
| THIS TALK ABOUT WORKFLOW AND SOFTWARE TO RUN
| THESE INKS, WHEN IN REALITY ALL ONE HAS TO DO IS
| REARRANGE INK DESIGNATION...SO THIS IS WHAT I
| DID...100% BLACK  BELONGS TO THE BLACK CARTRIDGE
| WHICH IS CORRECT...75% BLACK BELONGS TO BOTH CYAN
| AND MAGENTA BECAUSE THEY ARE BOTH THE SAME COLOR
| GRAY...50% BLACK WENT TO PHOTO CYAN...45% BLACK
| WENT TO PHOTO MAGENTA...25% BLACK WENT TO
| YELLOW...FILLING THESE INKS TO THE ABOVE
| DESIGNATIONS ALLOWED ME TO PRINT A COLOR
| PHOTOGRAPH DIRECTLY WITH 1 (ONE) EXCEPTION...I HAD
| TO MAKE THE IMAGE ON THE MONITOR TO BE LIGHTER ON
| "IMAGE-ADJUST-LEVELS" MIDDLE SLIDER TO THE NUMBER
| "180"...UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS AFTER ANY
| ADJUSTMENTS YOU HAD TO DO TO YOUR IMAGE TO GET IT
| THE WAY YOU LIKE IT ON THE SCREEN...FROM THAT POINT
| START OUT FRESH TO "IMAGE-ADJUST-LEVELS" AND
| PROCEED AS I HAVE DESCRIBED ABOVE..GIVE ME SOME
| FEEDBACK AS TO YOUR RESULTS...OH, BY THE WAY, I HAVE
| ALSO FIGURED OUT ANOTHER WAY TO PRINT FROM
| GRAYSCALE...I WILL GIVE THAT VERY EASY "WORKFLOW"
| TOMORROW...PLEASE, GIVE ME FEEDBACK...MY PRINTS
| LOOK GREAT AND I DO HAVE A DARKROOM...
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