Digital BW, The Print

Sorry; I agree that they are icc profiles.

My point was that just getting started he didn't need to worry about them yet.

and RGB?  I also agree about the "on the fly" conversion not being desireable.  I used to 
convert my grayscale files to RGB just before printing with the misunderstanding that it 
was necessary to get B&W with all inks, rather than suffer BO.  So I have a few left laying 
around and printed one using both RGB and grayscale in QTR.

Seemed to get the same results from both, though I am very new to this.

I imagine that I will eventually switch to gray (lab) and the gray icc's, but not for old files 
that print fine.

Scott

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale <stevekale@b...> 
wrote:
> Scott
> 
> The greyscale ICC profiles I described are output profiles - more
> specifically, printer profiles.  You are talking about workspace.  Dot gain
> 20 or whatever doesn't matter IF AND ONLY IF you colour manage the output
> stage.  If you don't use colour management at the output stage you will end
> up in the thread "Best RIP for 2200" to one degree or another.  My
> recommendation is to stay in a generally used greyscale workspace like Gray
> Gamma 2.2 (a direct subset of Adobe RGB) and colour manage the output stage
> with one of the two printer profiles.  [I work in QTR Gray which is Lab
> without the a and b channels but only because I find L* more intuitive for
> B&W - I still can't think in Lab for colour!]
> 
>