[Openicc] Introduction / Gutenprint

[Hal V Engel]

On Sunday 10 April 2005 01:48 pm, Gerhard Fuernkranz wrote:
> Actually I wanted to ask: May people seriously (not just for fun)
> consider to fill e.g. some Pantone spot color inks into the 5th and 6th
> ink tank of their inkjet printer, in addition to CMKY in the first four
> tanks? (for instance instead of filling the tanks with CMYKcm, as
> actually intended by the manufacturer).
>
> Regards,
> Gerhard

One thing that is being right now is using shades of gray instead of colors to 
do black and white work.  There is even a B&W RIP available for open source 
systems that supports this.  And there are numerous ink sets available.  So I 
guess that the answer to your question is yes - sort of.