Digital BW, The Print

thanks, steve :-)  i believe i had muddled the concept of profile 
and driver... 
ed


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve 
Kale <stevekale@b...> wrote:
> Ed
> 
> You do not use a profile when doing BO printing.  ICC profiles 
are used for
> a colour managed workflow (be that colour or greyscale 
images).  BO printing
> uses a Same as Source workflow - ie you deliver the printer a 
gray gamma 2.2
> file (or whatever your workspace is).  You are not tagging the 
file with a
> specific printer/media ICC profile.  The reason he is getting a 
magenta cast
> is because of the age old problem of the Epson driver using 
colour inks
> unsuccessfully to create greyscale.  BO avoids this completely 
by only using
> the one ink - black - and simply using the spacing of the dots to 
create
> shades of grey.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> From: "edrudolpho" <erudolph@p...>
> Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 15:26:50 -0000
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] BO on 2200 with new Epson profiles
> 
> A poster at Dpreview.com was complaining about a magenta 
cast to his B&W
> prints 
> using the new Epson profiles.  Can anyone verify that the new 
profiles
> actually permit 
> true BO printing?
> 
> thanks, Ed
> 
> 
> 
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