Digital BW, The Print

On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 11:31  AM, Dennis Stein wrote:

> Hi-
>
> I am printing duotones and getting results that are off from the
> monitor image. Monitor is calibrated, papers are profiled. Color files
> look excellent. I don't know much about duotones, but am trying to get
> similar look to toning I had when in traditional darkroom. Using
> Pantone colors in Photoshop 7.  What would make results better? Would I
> be better off using RGB and colorizing in in hue/saturation dialogue
> box?

duotones  aren't in a space, so I'm not sure they know how to behave 
the way you are hoping, convert your duo or multi tone file (which is a 
gray file with ink curves attached for specific press environments) 
back to your rgb working space, check your soft proof for your specific 
paper/ink combo and go from there. Maybe that'll help.

colorizing in hue/sat can give good results, also levels adjustments in 
RGB, but your results vary with each image, some need the specific 
color mapping of a duotone to achieve the desired contrast, others do 
well with the overall tone a color cast gives from hue/sat...

just thoughts.
Carolyn