Re: Duotone

[Hraban <angerweit@gmx.net>]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> > > Well, I'm not sure this is the
> > > right English word. With `duotone' I mean documents typeset in two
> > I think you mean "duplex" or just spot color separation.
> > I'm just working on a project with duplex photos, that is:
> I thought the word was duotone for these images, and we just call it
> two color printing here? Anyway, one of the easiest solutions for this

I'm not really sure. I don't have a media dictionary.
I use(d) the words that are usual with Photoshop.

In German we say "Duoton(e)" only for black+grey (for better b+w photos),
but "Duplex" (Triplex etc.) for other combinations.
You can achieve an easy pseudo duplex effect (with QuarkXPress and
perhaps other programs) if you define fore- and background colors for
greyscale pictures.

> is  using two of the four CMYK channels only, typically C and K. My
> printer was quite happy with these files.

That's a good workaround -- I used to do it this way myself.
But if you need CMYK plus spot color its not possible.
And, as I wrote, multichannel should work, too.

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