Digital BW, The Print

I've only done this once, as an experiment, despite the fact that I 
liked the results with two of the four VM curves and the new Sepia - 
Neutral inkset in an 1160. I was hurriedly prospecting for something 
to use in Tom O'Connell's Animals print exchange and had an old slide 
of a dog crossing a forest steam on a log in the fall. The dog and 
the log came out about the color they come out in a color print, some 
bright yellow foliage came out a nice orange, and nearly everything 
else was a nice brown. But I think how pleasing the effects are is 
probably too image-specific to think of this as an alternative 
work-flow.

Too bad because I often prefer to scan in RGB, so I'm making an 
RGB-to-GS-to-RGB roundtrip. I assume it's better to stay in high-bit 
mode the whole way? But I haven't found a way to do that and print 
captions with documentary information in them for old photos.

Sam


>Ok, Some of my comments I'm sure have been hashed but as I grow to
>understand the responses, I promise to pass them on.
>
>I am presuming, as the MIS workflow site states about working on the
>image in greyscale and then converting to RGB for printing is to
>allow the three channels to be relatively similiar; therefore the
>curves have their most consistent applications exerted. ?
>
>Is anyone scanning in RBG, editing AND printing instead of working
>greyscale to RBG?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Cleavis