Digital BW, The Print

On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 03:55  PM, jim hayes wrote:

snip...
> Strange thing is, there's really no way to soft proof in greyscale in
> PS. Through the soft proof command that is. What you do is set your
> greyscale space to "custom dot gain" and than fool with the curve
> until your IP output matches your screen. They don't tell you this in
> the IP manual- people on the IP Yahoo group figured it out. Same
> technique Jon Cone told folks about way back in 2000 I recall...


Actually, there is a way to soft-proof in grayscale (or RGB) by using 
soft-proof profiles derived from custom icc profiles created for 
whatever ink/paper/software driver or RIP that you use.  See my post 
above ("New icc based Soft-proof profiles for QTR") and the sample 
download included.

Carl