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I don't believe going through the process of printing an ink separation file would enhance your results very much if you are printing with the Epson K3 inks and using a standard type paper similar to the ones in the profile folder for your printer. What I would suggest instead in this case is to just use the basic profile of the profile that is most like the paper you would like to print with, and create a new profile by linearizing it. This is kind of a one step process and can vastly improve results.

In any event, if what you are after is "neutral tone" prints the process is more complicated because you are going to have to use some of the color inks, cyan or magenta, to blend in with the warm Epson inks, which are mostly carbon black. Carbon black by nature is quite warm in tone and the only way to cool it down is by blending in cyan, or a mixture of cyan and magenta in toning.

The only other alternative is to replace the Epson ink set with a third party all gray ink set, but even most of these sets are based on carbon black, and warm in tone. The only one that is a tad more neutral is eboni, but even it is warm in tone.

Sandy

QTR-Quadtone RIP

Re: Ink Separation

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