Digital BW, The Print

Mark,

The quality of your black and white print will be identical to the RGB 
print at any size.


Jerry







MARK MAIO wrote:
> Being new to this list and digital printing, this might be a basic
> question, so I apologize in advance if it is.
> 
> I am using a quad tone B&W printing system and having my B&W negatives
> drum scanned. For the purpose of this question, I ask for the scan to be
> for output at (X) dpi @ (X) size, which, for examples sake, gives me a
> 75 meg RGB file. When I open the file in PhotoShop and convert it to
> gray scale, I end up with a 25 meg file, which now limits me to a
> smaller size/resolution print.
> 
> So, I paid for a 75 meg scan but I can only use 25 megs of it. I could
> pay for a 225 meg scan to get the 75 megs I need to use or I could find
> a lab that would do custom gray scale drum scans, but I had another idea
> I wanted to run by the group. Would it be possible to open the B&W image
> as a RGB file and then convert/save each of the three color layers as a
> separate gray scale layer of 25 megs each and somehow merge them
> together to end up with a 75 meg gray scale file?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Mark Maio
> 
> 
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