Digital BW, The Print

Okay, though one other thing to double check is the MIS site...just a 
couple of dqays ago they updated curves and now use Adobe98 I 
think-and maybe for 870...
Jim H.



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "mckenzielamb" 
<mckenzielamb@h...> wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.  As it turns out, I'm still using photoshop 
> 6.  However, the problem does seem to be in the conversion from 
> grayscale to RGB.  If I create a gradient in an AdobeRGB file and 
> then print it without doing any conversions, it prints perfectly--no 
> posterizing.  (Interestingly, conversions from RGB to grayscale seem 
> to cause similar problems.)  I suppose I'll just have to work 
> exclusively with RGB files.  Too bad: It's a waste of space and 
time, 
> and it makes softproofing much less convenient.  Maybe I'll try 
using 
> the Microsoft ICM conversion engine, though I don't suppose it will 
> be any better than the Adobe engine.  It's curious that other's 
> haven't encountered this problem.  I have to wonder whether I'm not 
> doing something else wrong.
> 
> McKenzie