Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
...
snip...
> A word on soft proofing.  When you do a soft proof in a color
managed world
> you are looking at the combined effect of two things: (a) a
determination of
> what is out of gamut, (b) the effect of the method selected for
dealing with
> out of gamut colour (absolute, relative, perceptual etc) and (c) a
complete
> management of the different shape (gamma etc) of the two spaces....

Actually, the way most of us are using softproof for monochromatic out
put, most of this is irrelevant.
By checking the "preserve color numbers" box, we are taking advantage
of the device to lab LUTs only. No icc conversion is going to take
place when printing, and we are not asking preview to simulate that
conversion for us. Therefore intents are irrelevant, and grayed out.
We are looking at a monitor representation of how the output system
prints, period, including paper white and ink black if we choose to
use them.
Tyler