Digital BW, The Print

> Hi Stuart,
> your experience mirrors mine quite well.

we are not alone  :]
 
> >I would reccomend buying profiling software as it's going to give
you the best results. 
> What are you using? A warm picture is anyway preferable to Hell-HOT one!

hehheh. I use Xrite PULSE ColorElite - rgb + cmyk profiling software.
It is very reasonable cost wise (about 2300 dollars US) and incredibly
user friendly, and so far I've had great results with my photo papers
and other media.
I think there's a discussion going on right now on the
apple.colorsync.users list about the difference between this and
MonacoPROOF which is a similar price range, so you may want to do a
bit of research (although they are both made by the same company now
i'm not sure there's much difference)

> Interesting! Do you mean Quark XPress? 

Yes.

>It has a really good print driver (at least with my image setter
works great): if I'm understanding your point, you tint the GS Tiff
with a neutral Pantone Process (CYMK), such as a process black,
changing the percent of each coloured channel (CMY) accordingly to the
dominant cast you see in the print, right?

Yes Toti. I would make a new color using between 90 and 100% K.
Then fool around with combinations of CMY. 
What seems nice about this method is that it is consistant from print
to print.

>Hmmmm... I'll give it a go!

good luck :]

if you discover another method, I would love to know :D

stuart