Digital BW, The Print

Right, I understand your point about the lack of control over 
the "mix." What I was wondering was whether Vuescan, or Silverfast, 
or some other driver software, might have a better "mix" or if 
the "mix" was inherent to the scanner itself.

--Eddy

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Austin 
Franklin" <darkroom@i...> wrote:
> Hi Eddy,
> 
> > Austin, I have a question, if you don't mind:
> > When you say, "in the scanner," I assume you are referring to the
> > scanner driver, right?
> 
> Well, the actual conversion may happen physically IN the scanner it 
self, or
> the driver may take the three channels, and do it on the host
> computer...either works for my point, which is that 1) B&W is 
actually
> scanned as RGB, as that is all the scanner CAN do, unless you have a
> Leafscan, and 2) that it uses a "canned" mix, that you can't adjust,
> typically.
>