Digital BW, The Print

Drime,

I am personally not a big fan of B&W plug ins because I don't believe 
they give you the control that you will want.  Here are some 
resources you may want to reference to learn non-plug in ways.

Russell Brown is a noted Photoshop expert and has featured a number 
of ways of converting to B&W.  His latest can be found at.
http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html

John Paul Caponigro is another noted expert and explains his 
technique in this pdf found on the Adobe web site.
http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/pdfs/phs8bwconversion.pdf

I am a nobody in Photoshop, but I do explain a number of customary 
methods on my web site at the link below.  I also explain the method 
I devised and use on the web site.
http://www.zuberphotographics.com/page_CustIntro.htm

There is a simultaneous post going on (subject: channel mixer) that 
is asking whether or not John's technique is one of the best.  I
believe there is no `best' technique.  The `best' technique is 
probably the one that gives you the most control that you can handle 
at any given point in time.  As you get more comfortable, then you 
will probably want to look for a method that gives you increasing 
control.

Thomas