Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "ferdinand_paris" 
<ferdinand_paris@y...> wrote:
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Roy Harrington"
> <roy@h...> wrote:
> > Seems like there ought to be an easier way.  I have to learn
> > more about the details of what Qimage is doing.  When you have
> > a grayscale image in Qimage and want to print it -- can you, do
> > you have to pick an RGB profile for printing when you are
> > sending it to a file?  I'm trying to figure out how much color
> > management is going on and if you have control over it.
> > 
> > Roy
> 
> As others have said, Qimage will only output RGB.  I think that most
> of us who are using Qimage to prepare input for QTR are turning off
> the profile, so that it is an untagged RGB image. It seems that you
> have to do this for genuinely grayscale images.  Given the way that
> Qimage works, I actually keep my B&W images as monochrome RGB.  I
> could attach a profile, but it would be a colour one and I assume that
> QTR would ignore it?
> 
> Because I've always done it this way, I don't really understand what
> QTR does with profiles (since I don't attach one).  If an image has a
> profile attached, what does QTR do with the profile?  If Mike got
> around to supporting grayscale, and we could tag the output file with
> an appropriate profile, what difference would this make?  If I
> attached a colour profile to my RGB images, would QTR do anything
> with it?
> 
> (Sorry if this is a dumb question)
> 
> F_P


It looks like Qimage doesn't deal with gray spaces in a general way.
Aborting the program is a little drastic!

I'm thinking I may be able to make an rgb version of the gray spaces.

Roy