Digital BW, The Print

Eddie:

> If anyone is soft proofing with these ImagePrint profiles with success,
> I would very much appreciate your help...

OSX has an application called "ColorSync Utility" which is in the 
Utilities folder of the root Application folder. Run the "Profile First 
Aid" of the ColorSync Utility: this will fix the ColorByte profiles so 
that they show up in Photoshop. However, in order for the ColorByte 
profiles to show up in the Profile First Aid list, you may have to make 
as alias of the IP "Color" folder, and place that alias in one of the 
ColorSync profiles folders on your machine.

After the ColorByte profiles show up in Photoshop, I recommend, as 
described in pages 371-378 of Real World Photoshop 7, that you 
"Duplicate" the image in Photoshop and apply the SoftProof to the 
duplcate and the apply adjustment curves to the original image until 
the latter looks as much as possible as the duplicate. Then print from 
the original image with the adjustment layers. Then you want to group 
these adjustment layers into an adjustment set, and save the adjustment 
set. The adjustment set becomes your basic "targeting" adjustments for 
all images printed by this printer. I have found that I can use the 
same adjustment set for most of the prints to be made on my 7600, but 
some images do require further special adjustments.

--Mitch/Bangkok