Digital BW, The Print

Coming into this conversation in the middle and not having read everything, I'm not sure about the 'magenta' casts in b/w, but I hear about them regularly elsewhere and they (without RIPS) are almost always due to double profiling and not understanding color management.  I also remember 'magenta casts' due to some bad Epson inks also.  Of course the double profiling has to do with ICC profiles, but mainly in not knowing how to use them.  

BTW--I do have a calibrated CRT but see that differently from PS color management (but part of getting as close to correct color from monitor to printer as possible--using soft proofing).  Maybe I'm getting the wrong idea here between 'auto profiling' and 'auto calibrating'--which new high end monitors offer.  I'm guessing that all new monitors (which I understand will be LCDs as almost all CRT monitors, according to well known color management folks, will end production by the end of this year) will soon have auto calibrating, but they don't now.  

If I'm off track on this thread, I'm sorry.  Its been a long one and I've just picked up bits and pieces as I commute back and forth from location in the middle of 4 big shoots (to process BTW with correct color management  LOL).

Diane
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steve Kale 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 10:47 AM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Matching Monitor and Print


  You'll have to hope that all that auto profiling will accommodate B&W well -
  general ICC profiling doesn't today and that's why many people come to this
  forum...remember those magenta casts?


  > From: Drime <kdrime@...>

  > Hope you're right. That way I can put the whole thing off and not get
  > an aneurysm trying to figure it out!
  > 
  > Drime


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