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Re: [Digital BW] Why back to RGB in B&W workflow?

2003-11-14 by Bill

You get a better (richer) blacks and a wider tonal range using all colors.  Of course if 
your printer profile isn't good, you can also get a color cast.  I think that the best B&W 
is printed with all colors (assuming not quad tones, etc), but also the hardest.  Some 
will tell you that it can't be done, but they are wrong.

Bill

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "alnchiem" 
<andrewlee@h...> wrote:
> Well Paul, I don't recall if the workflows I've read specifically 
> relate to prepping an image for quad inks or not, but it seems common 
> for people to add this step of converting to RGB before sending to 
> print.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" 
> <paul.roark@v...> wrote:
> > Andrew,
> > 
> > Are you asking about this in the context of a B&W/"quad" inkset or 
> a color
> > inkset?
> > 
> > Paul
> > http://www.PaulRoark.com
> > _________________________________
> > 
> 
> >

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