Digital BW, The Print

Steve Kale <stevekale@b...> wrote:
> You'll have to hope that all that auto profiling will accommodate
B&W well -
> general ICC profiling doesn't today

We don't have to "hope." It'll be a done deal next year. With HP's
auto-profiling, ICC profiling by users is already becoming as
secondary to digital color as "color analyzers" always were to
photochemical color printing. 

 and that's why many people come to this
> forum...remember those magenta casts?

Magenta (and cyan) casts are primarily the result of inadequate
personal visual skills and jargon-ridden technical "explanations" of
relatively simple applications and processes (bad writing). 

Color skills are acquired by practice with elementary-school-level
knowledge of color theory, not by purchase and mastery of systems that
will shortly be completely obsolete.  

 That way I can put the whole thing off and not get
> > an aneurysm trying to figure it out!

That seems exactly right for many printers.