Sometimes it helps to be low?

My son Mark is working on an art project using an IBook - Adobe and a Lexmark X85 Ink Jet Multi Purpose printer. All was going good and he got the look he wanted on the output but was running out of in ink - streaks - replacing the cartridges seemed like it would put things back on track - however with the new cartridges in the output did not look the same. Being low on ink was for the look that made them "artisticly" right on for his use!

That intrigued me as he sits with a new dilemma.

My father - a wonderful oil painter - had a saying "Color is an old man's business." Which I took to mean in oil painting it takes a long time to learn to control and understand color - when you do understand and have done your "work" you are old.

That said I want to learn more about color to see if I can help Mark control color even when he is not low on ink.

I have seen and heard about Pantone - so I first wanted to learn what that Pantone meant: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/Pantone_Matching_System_PMS.html

Then the Pantone site itself: http://www.pantone.com/pantone_v1.asp

Which has some links to learn about color.

Some printers are Pantone Matching System compatible(sp?). Like Epson's

http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/WideFormat/pgindex.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes

So?