Digital BW, The Print

Thanks, Antonis-

I am only looking to solve two issues.

First is to know when I have reached the D I want for a particular image.

Second, to know if there is a colorcast in the ink so I can correct (?!?!)
it.

Where it has been driving me nuts is doing B&W's from color images.  PS SAYS
the grays are neutral, but I see color in one end or the other.  It would be
simple to just dump the color layers from the images. But, I am laying the
B&W over the color original (in PS), then wanting to print with just certain
"spots" in color.  Therefore, I have to stay in RGB mode.

Does that sound as though I need to have both pieces of equipment?

Seth

=don't know about the 308, but any of the DTP autoscans usually assume 
=some software support that generates the targets. A simpler 
=instrument would 
=be more useful for bw where you really only need to read a few 
=patches (26 in 
=the case of IJC) as opposed to color where you can be reading hundreds.
=
=The dilemma for many people who do both color and bw is 
=whether to buy a 
=densitometer for a few hunder $ from eBay and then have to buy 
=a fancy strip 
=reading spectrophotometer for heavy duty color profiling. It 
=takes jumping 
=through a few hoops to get the strip readers to read a simple 26-step 
=grayscale a step at a time.
=