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# I would have to dust off my old printing handbooks to be sure.
You may be correct, but I could not find the filter or adjustment that would let me make a DuoTone quickly in Photoshop, so I faked it.

Wiki agrees with me:
Duotone is a halftone reproduction of an image using the superimposition of a contrasty black halftone over a one color halftone. This is most often used to bring out middle tones and highlights of an image. The most common colors used are blue, yellow, browns and red.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duotone
and a more trustworthy site:
www.printernational.org/what-is-duotone.php
(I helped save b3ta! tubaman, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 19:32, archived)
# So yours is not just purple then?
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 19:58, archived)
# Purple and Black
2 inks = DuoTone

but again, I faked it for this one ;-)

some more clues:
www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/duotones/index.html
following their guide:

is a Photoshop Duotone.
That mode was hidden in my menu... it only works if in Greyscale.
(I helped save b3ta! tubaman, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 20:11, archived)
# Sounds more like an old record company/techology to me
"For your Listening Pleasure, this Recording is now available in Patented Duotone Stereoscopic Phonograph format, for the Gentleman who Demands Excellence in both Volume and Clarity."

Edit: I'd love to have a look at some of this stuff: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanotype
(I helped save b3ta! Tangy bzzzzzzzzt, Tue 29 Sep 2009, 20:04, archived)