Re: Designing ink sets
Re: Designing ink sets
- Subject: Re: Designing ink sets
- From: Steve Upton <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 13:52:34 -0800
At 1:07 PM +0000 2/6/06, Steve Kale wrote:
>I have a general question with regard to ink set designs, specifically with respect to the colour of greyscale inks used as part of a colour ink set. Am I right to say that good colour begins with good greyscale generation and that as a rule one would prefer K, LK and LLK inks which, when forming part of a (8 ink) colour ink set, which are as neutral on paper as can possibly be? I understand that this would, amongst other things, make profiling easier and images less prone to colour shifts. If I am wrong on this could you please explain why. Even if the foregoing is correct, are there circumstances when one would purposefully deviate from neutrality in the greyscale inks?
yeah, physics.
When you grind carbon into very fine particles is tends to appear a bit brown.
Epson's K3 inks have very fine grays and appear to be a bit warm when used on their own. The only way to get neutral grays is to add some cyan. Not Epson's fault, just the way carbon works.
Regards,
Steve
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