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Re: Quadtones with duplicate inks

2005-05-29 by Roy Harrington

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@i...> wrote:
> > From: Daniel Staver
> >
> > Let's say C and LC has the same inks. If C is part of a partitioned
> > curve you can set LC to 'Copy curve from C' with an ink limit of 100.
> > C's ink limit should be half of what you'd normally use.
> >
> > The reason LC should have an ink limit of 100 is that it copies the
> > curve from C after C has already applied its own ink limit. Applying
> > another ink limit would reduce the copied curve further.
> 
> Thanks. I never would have guessed that, nor would I have been able to tell
> what it was doing by looking at the results.
> 
> --
> 
> Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
> Paul                mailto:pderocco@i...

The other thing you can do, Paul, is to just put both in the list of grays with
just slightly different values, like C=37 and LC=36.  The partitioning will
just switch over from one to the other.

Roy

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