Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "peter_in_seattle" <lists@g...> 
wrote:
> Anybody here using Mac OS X?
> 
> If so, please excuse my beginner's ignorance... In general, I'm fairly 
confused 
> about color management as relates to workflow. I'm trying to use Jeff 
> Randall's workflow (1160; FS-N) on a Powerbook G4 (with the crappy built-
in 
> Powerbook monitor ... it'll have to do for now) with Mac OS X 10.1.5.
> 
> What I'm wondering is what settings I should have in the ColorSync system 
> preferences panel, where I'm supposed to set the gamma (Monitors system 
> panel or Photoshop, or both?), which profile to choose in the Displays 
system 
> prefs and whether I should choose adjust/calibrate the display after 
choosing 
> a standard display profile like Adobe RGB (assuming that's the correct one).
> 
> Other problems/questions: I use a Polaroid Sprintscan 4000 with Vuescan... 
> which color space should I be scanning in (I'm mostly scanning B&W negs, 
by 
> the way)? Should everything be set to the same color space?
> 
> What about printing... the ColorSync system panel has output color space 
> options, the Epson printer driver has color space options, Photoshop has 
> color space options... I'm thoroughly flummoxed.
> 
> Any help from fellow OS X users would be most gratefully received.
> 
> Peter

Hi Peter,

There are quite a lot of options in many different places but by and large
you want the generic choice.   I use the Roark workflow not the Randall one
but I think for the most part they work alike -- just different ink sets and
different curves.  

Here's what I use:
System Preferences>Colorsync:   all generic profiles (RGB,CMYK,Gray)

Photoshop > Color Settings:    Web defaults or possibly use Adobe RGB
all color management policies OFF.   (Gray should be Gamma 2.2)

All my scans and files are "untagged".

When printing -- the Print Dialog should have under Color Management
Source "Untagged RGB" , Print "Same as Source"

(you might also read the Roark flow for any other questions)

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I think about the most helpful thing is to work with the 21stepNew.jpg
file found under Files>ImageProcessing.    Looking at it on the screen
you should see separation for every step and printing it out you should
also get a similar result.

Roy