Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "koloshor"
<wiz@n...> wrote:

> Short answer, printing with PhotoShop is like shooting with a point
and shoot camera. Auto everything, and little control. (It's no
coincidence that PhotoShop and "point and shoot" are both initialed
"PS"). QTR, ICM/OCP, ImagePrint, etc. are like using the camera on
manual, exposing via the zone system, and paying attention to your
darkroom procedures. You don't get a "master print" from the drug store.
> 

I disagree. Photoshop gives me extremely good color prints. Perhaps it
is hampered by the Epson driver for the black and white. There is no
reason why Photoshop will give me an accurate print (accurate=close to
the work I have done on my picture) and a 3rd-party program will be so
far off out of the box and will require so much tweaking. Photoshop
gives me enough control to do whatever I want with my picture and thn
print it exactly the way I see it. Unfortunately the Epson driver
mangles it and doesn't want to output black and white as black and
white. As far as I know Photoshop is not responsible for the
metamerism effect and doesn't apply any automatic treatment to my
picture besides ICC profile conversion. I could use any other with as
much control as I want, as long as the Epson drivers (and therefore
all the Epson inks) are used, I'll get the metamerism, so this is not
helping.