Digital BW, The Print

Sorry I was unclear.

Am scanning black and white negatives in RGB mode.  When I printed them I got funny 
color casts.

Finally noticed that although the images looked B&W on the screen, when I used info 
palatte and ran the cursor across the image the RGB values were not equal (a la 8/8/8, 2/
2/2, etc) but maybe 2/7/4 etc.

Hence I now desaturate my B&W scans to B'er and W'er.

Scott

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale <stevekale@b...> 
wrote:
> Desaturated RGB is an awful way to get a grey scale image.  Tru Channel
> Mixer or better yet (and this is the method I use) Split Channels.  There
> are a multitude of ways with many pros and cons but it is generally regarded
> that a simple desaturation is the worst.
> 
> 
> From: "Scott Graham" <gebilwil@n...>
> Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 07:11:27 -0000
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: B&W on the 4000 - Epson driver
> 
> Gosh, i don't have any trouble getting neutral B&W from the UC inks and std
> driver.  I use 
> "printer color management" (as you do) and sliders at zero.  It comes out
> neutral.
> 
> Of course I don't use a gray scale image, but RGB.  Grayscale only has to be
> converted to 
> RGB by the printer anyway, and the more conversions the sadder (round off,
> clipping, etc)
> 
> I do have to make sure that my RGB "grayscale" is desaturated though.  Made
> a mess at 
> first cuz I was scanning B&W negs in RGB and the scanner was not perfectly
> neutral.
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> 
> 
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