Digital BW, The Print

Roy wrote:

>Steve Kale wrote:
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>>I'm just coming up the CMYK learning curve but this seems a little worrying
>>to me - being dependent on the Epson driver canned profile for a decent B&W
>>profile rather than being able to generate a "custom" profile with third
>>party software like the Eye One.  I suspect the B&W community needs to dig a
>>little deeper into just how this part of the Epson driver works.
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>I'm even newer coming up that curve, but am I hearing this right that 
>there's no way at this point to make profiles for the 2400
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For RIPs and the Epson driver there will not be any problem to make 
custom color profiles, CMYK or RGB.
There's doubt about the possibility to linearise the B&W output of the 
printer driver.  Of course one could correct that part with curves in PS 
if it isn't satisfying.

Ernst