On 28/1/03 1:07 pm, Giles Stokoe wrote:
> Consider this.. I create a new A4 sized document in photoshop, and put
> nothing in it. It is blank... transparent (shown by grey squares). I print
> it... the printer chugs away filling a whole page of A4 with 1% Cyan.
Giles
I just did some printing yesterday using SM inks and the Lyson supplied
profile. I wanted to print only the top left area of the image on an A4
sheet so turned off all the other layers. The printer printed the image, had
a good think, decided there was nothing to lay down in the transparent areas
and threw out the paper.
> I have not had a good enough answer so far as to why ANY profile is laying
> down ink when the source image values are 255RGB. The paper stock etc are
> irrelevant (they will change saturation, colour balance etc as reflectivity,
> absorbancy, dot gain etc vary... but we are not talking about the colour
> balance here). Where there is a total absence of colour in the image, no
> colour should be laid down on the paper.
>
> All I want is to be able to print nothing.
That's what I did. I converted to the profile before printing and then
selected Same as Source in the PwP dialog box in Photoshop and no ink was
laid in the transparent areas. Have I missed something?
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