Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "plnelson2003 
<peter@s...>" <peter@s...> wrote:
> I just returned from a classical music weekend where
> I brought some of my studio gear and did "portraits" of
> some of the musicians' instruments, chiefly flute,
> clarinet, English horn, and French horn.  The predominent
> color on these instruments was silver, with odd bits of
> gold.  The nonmetal parts of the English horn and clarinet
> were black and I shoot them on black velvet.   On some 
> shots I tossed in some bright colored objects to add 
> splashes of color, but the predominent color scheme was
> silver and black.   These photos were shot with a digital camera.
> 
> In order to print what colors there were I need to print
> in color, so black-only or hextones can't do the job. But
> being mostly silver and black these images will reveal 
> any problems the printer has with either non-neutrality,
> color casts at different values, or metamerism, just the
> way black and white printing does.  I think this is the 
> first situation I've run into where a RIP may be the only
> solution.

What makes a color RIP work is a good custom profile; Even a 
reasonably priced profiling suite like Monaco EZcolor will go a long 
way towards getting it right, if you do hardware calibration on the 
monitor, etc. Photoshop does fine as a RIP if you feed it the right 
info!

Steve K