Digital BW, The Print

> Better yet, if possible, the
> technique/skill that was used by Roy to generate his matte/photo 
paper
> profiles could be employed so that Black Only printing became a 
colour
> managed (rather than Same as Source) workflow.  Then perceptual 
rendering
> could be utilised to curve the image into the BO print space.  One 
wouldn't
> have to fiddle with s curves again - just like QTR today.
> 
> Hope this makes sense/helps.
> 
> Steve
> 
> PS:  If I get a chance I will try to provide a BO1.8 and BO2.2 soft 
proof
> profile for Eboni on EEM on a 2100 using Carl's technique.

If you are working with a CMYK device, like an inkjet with a real 
RIP, then you can make BO profiles very easily. Simply generate a 
CMYK profile for your device, then use Xrite's Colorshop X to make a 
BO profile. This is what I do for my 9500 with Fiery RIP. If you send 
a grayscale image (grayscale workspace) to the Fiery, it 
automatically uses only black ink. If I convert the image to this BO 
profile (which is now in the grayscale space for that paper) and 
print, it falls within the limits of the BO channel. You now have 
a "color" managed workflow. There are a couple other ways to make a 
BO profile with Colorshop X, but I haven't tried them, or really read 
the "book" to see how to make them. Since I am already making a color 
profile, the simple conversion with Colorshop X is only a small step 
away. You can get Colorshop X from Xrite for $99USD, and there is 
also a 15 or 30 day (I can't remember) full function trial. It does 
work with the Eye-one, as well as several other spectrophotometers 
from Xrite.

If anyone is interested, and can't find it at the Xrite site, email 
me with your Yahoo user ID and I'll put it in a Yahoo briefcase and 
share it out to you. That said, no I won't let you use my serial 
number, Xrite has been a good company to me and I respect them too 
much to cheat them out of the money. I only offer this because it's 
hard to find the software on their site, and it runs in demo mode 
until your register online with Xrite, and then get your serial 
number back in an email from Xrite. Yes that means it needs to phone 
home at least once to get the serial number. The user manual is 181 
pages, and is only available as a PDF (I haven't printed mine yet). I 
bought mine from the Xrite store, and it showed up 3 days later with 
regular shipping (not express or overnight).

The new version of Colorshop X works with the new Pulse spectro too. 
And it is worth the money just to make BO profiles, plus all the 
other stuff like a scanning spectro patch reader similar to Quick 
Read, profile gamut mapping, full color grayscale profile creation 
from CMYK profiles (converts color images to full CMYK gray space). A 
whole lot of tools, most from the ICC tools library.