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Alan Smithee

2005-05-25, 4:15 am

I want to duotone some black and whites to look similar to the warm tone I
get with traditional black and white materials (Kodak Illord et al.) I find
the blacks in my Epson printer tend to look a little on the blue/cool side.
What second colour works well for toning warm. Thx.


Odysseus

2005-05-25, 7:14 pm

In article <c%Rke.1474936$6l.1249283@pd7tw2no>,
"Alan Smithee" <AlanSmithee@nowhere.com> wrote:

> I want to duotone some black and whites to look similar to the warm tone I
> get with traditional black and white materials (Kodak Illord et al.) I find
> the blacks in my Epson printer tend to look a little on the blue/cool side.
> What second colour works well for toning warm. Thx.


It can be very hard to predict what will work in a composite print; each
type of printer has its own way of rendering spot colours. But a
'traditional' approach would probably be to use one of the Pantone Warm
Gray series as a second colour to add depth to the midtones, together
with a contrasty black.

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Odysseus
Alan Smithee

2005-05-25, 11:14 pm

Odysseus wrote:
> In article <c%Rke.1474936$6l.1249283@pd7tw2no>,
> "Alan Smithee" <AlanSmithee@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>
> It can be very hard to predict what will work in a composite print;
> each type of printer has its own way of rendering spot colours. But a
> 'traditional' approach would probably be to use one of the Pantone
> Warm Gray series as a second colour to add depth to the midtones,
> together with a contrasty black.


Sounds like a good starting point. Thx.


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