Digital BW, The Print

Claude, Could you be a little more specific on your workflow? I 
don't see ICM setting in my setup. Do you print from Photoshop or 
Qimage? I find that I can print using print preview in Photoshop 
using Atkinson profiles and no color adjustment and match my monitor 
almost dead on when printing color but my B&W has a green caste. Any 
help would be appreciated. I'm using an Epson 4000 and Hahnemuhle 
Photo Rag 188.

Capuozzo

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, claudej1@a... 
wrote:
> OK, so after some horrid B&W output I figured out how to use the 
Epson "in 
> the box" profiles to make some pretty darn nice B&W prints (for 
you purists out 
> there who think I am not, I also have a 2200 about to get UT-7's, 
a C82 
> EZ-UTFSN glossy setup, an 860 with Piezo, and a 7500 with UT-1). 
There is more than 
> one way to do Black and White, so I'm trying them all.
> 
> Instead of using Custom/Advanced/No Color Adj. in the Epson driver 
with the 
> Atkinson profile applied in QImage or Adobe PS Prints space, you 
MUST use the 
> Printer Color Management setting in PS Print space, select the 
> Custom/Advanced/ICM setting. The 4000 Epson driver will 
automatically apply the right profile 
> in concert with the paper selection matching the paper used.
> 
> Printing out various step wedges, there are no obvious "color 
warbles" 
> (Atkinson term) in the output. All in all, pretty good B&W in 
using only what comes 
> in the Epson box with Epson papers. Certainly ver saleable to 
portrait clients.
> 
> The steps hit visual Dmax at about 93%, so the Roark Curves/UT-x 
solutions 
> are still better there, as well as the Piezography ICC or Export 
driver. YMMV.
> 
> Oh, by the way, it makes great color out of the box also using the 
same 
> methods.
> 
> RIPS are looking like less of a necessity these days, but still 
offer many 
> choice benefits.
> 
> Claude Jodoin
> Tech. Editor, Rangefinder.
> 
> 
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