Digital BW, The Print

FWIW, I stay in RGB mode & use a Channel Mixer Adjustment Layer for
achieving grayscale. -BK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam A. McCandless [mailto:samcc@...]
> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 10:15 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: About Using Mis VM inks...
>
>
> 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
>
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