Digital BW, The Print

My experience was exactly the opposite. if I don't flatten the image before
printing I get posterisation.  It took me a while and many prints to work
out that it was the adjustment layers causing the posterisation.

I am using 
- Mac OSX 
- Epson Print Driver
- Roak NCA Curves
- MIS UT Inks

My workflow is now:

- Convert to 8 bit
- Adjust levels in Adjustment Layers
- Flatten
- Unsharp mask
- Apply Roark Curves 
- Print

This is producing the best prints I have ever made, but would be interested
to know if I the above process could be further improved.  Sounds like
Photoshop upgrade would help with 16bit adjustment layers.

js

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Kobrin [mailto:kobrins@...] 
Sent: 30 October 2003 21:34
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com


Steve,

I cannot speak to more complex layers, but I do use an adjustment 
layer at times to make last minute corrections before printing and 
Epson printers seem to handle it without a problem.  They are simple 
curves adjustments for brightness or contrast.

Steve

> 
> I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think 
> most of these printer drivers are capable of processing a layered 
> image-at some point it has to get flattened and your adjustments 
> applied so doing as much as possible in 16-bit makes sense, at 
least 
> in theory. However,I seem to remember some rip-snorting arguments 
on 
> this forum as to wether or not you could actualy see the damage in 
a 
> print.
> 
> Steve Karafyllakis



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