[Openicc] Printing Plans GhostScript / sRGB / ICC

[Robert Krawitz]

On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:54:52 +1100, Graeme Gill wrote:
> James Cloos wrote:
>> Why shouldn’t they?  The out of box defaults are sane for most users.
>> The ability to choose between expensive CMY or inexpensive K for RGB
>> gray is clearly a feature demanded by users (using CMY for gray costs
>> more than five times as much USD than using K, but gives noticeably
>> better results in photographs and the like).
>
> It's print quality driven as much as cost. Text looks better if it's
> black only. You will notice certain features an ArgyllCMS that
> support this requirement :-)

Except for certain printers whose "black" ink is anything but.  The
Epson 2100's so-called black ink is actually a medium brown; it's only
possible to get good blacks by using a composite mix.

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