Digital BW, The Print

on 3/4/03 1:41 PM, Michael A. Schwarz at michael@... wrote:

> 
> I couldn't agree more.  Everybody's got to do what works for them.  Care to
> share how you get such good results?

Michael,
Chances are it's just luck with my particular printer and driver but here's
what I (and others) do:
In the print with preview dialog box (Photoshop7) in the source space I
select the document source space (you may have it in grayscale or RGB...or
CMYK) and the profile I choose is not the paper profile but "printer color
management". After making those selections, go into the printer driver,
select your paper (pr Luster in this case or whatever) and in "Advanced"
select "Color Controls", "Automatic", turn high speed OFF, I use 1440 dpi
and print. This combo gives me the best even grayscale image with no
"rainbowing" across gray levels. As I said it has a very slight cyan cast.
A couple of days ago I tried converting my grayscale image to CMYK and
adjusting in Curves just the Cyan curve. I pulled it just very slightly in
the mid range to pull out just a hiar of the cyan. I liked the result. It's
a very good neutral and will serve me fine until I get into something better
suited to B/W printing which will probably be the Piezography.
Let me know if thet works for you.
BTW. I almost didn't see your post because I guess when you respond to a
digest it doesn't maintain the topic thread (I kept your thread in my
subject line for your response), just the digest number. Not sure how you
would adjust for that.

Sue

Sue Tallon Photography
suetallon@...







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