Digital BW, The Print

> From: Steve Kale [mailto:stevekale@...]
>
> I have learnt that a colour managed (read: synced) workflow
> simply will not
> yet produce good B&W.  If you use a profile you are still stuck
> with how the
> Epson driver produces shade of grey x, ie the mix of colour inks
> to produce
> grey.  This is the fundamental problem and no profile will help.
> Hence the
> solution is found in either (a) using a different driver/RIP which better
> controls the colour inks (ie QTR or Imageprint) or (b) quad ink sets that
> have no colour (except for tinting) or c) black only.

The problem isn't color management, it's that the driver only has RGB
inputs. If it took CMYK profiles, that would be a lot more versatile.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...