Digital BW, The Print

I didn't see anything in here about a profiler.  If you don't have 
one then I hope you have another car in the garage to sell. 


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DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "justinflorentine" 
<justin@b...> wrote:

> I'm an experienced analog printer who just made a big jump into the
> digital world.  Recently sold a car, so the spending cash found 
it's
> way to my local compusa :).
> 
> Anyhoo, I'm a PC user who shoots exclusively on 35mm Nikons.  I 
bought
> a Nikon Coolscan 4000 and an Epson 2200 for my digital darkroom.  
Like
> most others, IU use photoshop.  Now I'm trying to grok color
> management, more specifically ICC (or is it ICM?  what's the
> difference?) color profiles.  I ran through the adobe gamma wizard 
in
> my Win2K control panel to make sure my monitor was accurate, and to
> generate a profile.  I did this, but now I'm not sure at which 
phase
> of my workflow to apply it.
> 
> 1) Scan on nikon cs 4000.  No gain adjustment, no auto-exposure, 
14bit
> RGB scan.  Level adjustments to be done in PS.
> 
> 2) Do I immediately apply my monitor profile to the image?  I would
> think that this would make my future changes relative to the 
monitor
> profile.  Is this correct?
> 
> 3) Adjust levels, crop, and darkroom fun.
> 
> 4) Adjust DPI/image size, print to the 2200.  Now when I do this, 
do I
> use my monitor profile as the source, or would that be
> double-profiling?  If not, what do I use for the source profile?  
The
> target profile is the Epson 2200 that came with it, but I suspect I
> should be using a paper/ink specific profile.  Is this correct?
> 
> Is this a complete enough workflow?  I feel like I must be missing
> some steps, but that could just be freshman uncertainty...
> 
> Thanks again...