Digital BW, The Print

Bob,

Curiosity kills the cat but I have installed the Windows R800 
driver to see what it does. I was not aware of the fact that you 
don't get to see the ICC profile(s) anymore in the driver menu. 
Compared to the wide format drivers I'm used to, the driver 
integrates more features and is in a way even less transparent. 
The installation has three profiles that will get used by the 
paper settings if the driver is set to do the color management 
and must be selected in PS if that program will do the color 
management. Alan Briot uses the last I see. Nothing new to you.

No indication of special B&W ICC profiles, I will check whether 
there is something special in the profiles with the Wasatch 3D 
profile viewer.

One wonders whether the rendering choices of ICC profiles can get 
a 5th addition for B&W rendering. The basics of neutrality are 
the same for color and B&W profiles but with the first you want 
to keep a wide gamut and with the other you want to get a small 
gamut and more neutrality. What I have seen of B&W ICC profiles 
so far is that all the 4 rendering choices show a mapping to the 
grey axis of the color space.  That's done by setting the 
saturation sliders 100% negative per rendering in profile editors 
and not much more. One extra rendering incorporating that (and 
possibly more that escapes me) for B&W would be a nice addition 
to the ICC standard.

Ernst