Digital BW, The Print

Clayton,

>...Paul, your method using two curves sounds very much like my
> approach, although it seems like doing it the hard way.  I just let PS
> do the work for me. When using grayscale mode, when the Printer
> profile is Same As Source it applies exactly the opposite of whatever
> the front end profile is doing, so that no matter what is assigned to
> the image it makes no difference to the print.  ...


Interesting.  Do you have a write-up of your approach on the web?  I'd like
to give it a try to see if we're getting to the same place with all this.

There are certainly lots of ways to skin this cat.  What I'm basically
following up on is that I think the linearization step that the rips use is
the main thing that was missing from the PS curves workflow.  But it seems a
curves set can do not only that but also the print-to-monitor matching.  So,
I'm trying to see how many birds I can get with this one stone -- a curves
set that corrects for any number of variables that have caused the "canned"
curves and solutions to fail for some users.  

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com