TSHACK (TSHACK@SILVER-BAYOU.COM)
Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:42:36 -0700
I'd like to see that jpeg. Thanks.
Dwight
-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth L. Carney <kcarney@nstar.net>
To: jfulton@itsa.ucsf.edu <jfulton@itsa.ucsf.edu>;
alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Date: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: Platinum inkjet
>Jack:
>
>I'll try, though I'm pretty much in the early stages. First of all, the
>prints are b&w. In the quadtone, each color prints a different shade of
>gray. For example, in the Epson EX 5-color cartridge, the yellow chamber
>is filled with 50% black, the light magenta is 45% black, magenta is 50%
>black, light cyan is 15% black and cyan is 25%. I think I've got that
>right -I keep it posted on the bench where the cartridges are filled. So,
>a Photoshop quadtone would lay down the inks, in my case, in the following
>order: black, magenta, yellow and lime green. The printer will think it is
>printing in color, assigning the black inks to mix these "colors". It
>seems to work OK when the transfer curves for each color are adjusted by
>trial and error. On screen, the print looks pretty goofy -strange colors
>and way too light. I gang up smaller prints on Pagemaker and adjust the
>transfer curves by trial and error for each print.
>
>The Epson inks are really good, but...they will not last in display
>conditions. I think the Epson inks would be better for making negatives
>for contact printing on the Epson. If you like, I could email you a couple
>of quadtone images scanned from the MIS/Concorde print. They are small jpg
>files, 25-30K.
>
>At 09:01 AM 6/14/99 -0700, Jack Fulton wrote:
>>Ken,
>>Could you explain this a bit more? What you have developed seems really
>>interesting in the sense that one would appear to be able to MAKE their
own
>>combo for printing full color rather than relying of the program to print
out
>>one's results.
>>
>>Too, I've been testing inks in a funky fashion for a year now. The newer
Epson
>>inks are MUCH better. Also, I'll be ttesting the new Diko inks later this
>>summer.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have been printing with quadtones that I developed in Photoshop, i.e.,
a
>>> Photoshop duotone converted to RGB so I could lay it out in Pagemaker.
The
>>> results are pretty good, evocative of a real print, dare I say a real
>>> platinum print.
>
>
>
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