Digital BW, The Print

Roger that. I can well imagine the RGB profiles (Qimage targeted, I 
believe),
might look goofy on screen but print properly. I'll give it a try.

I'll also look more closely at whether or not PWP supports icc profiles for
grayscale images (I think not, unfortunately).

Scott

Steve Kale wrote:

> I am not familiar with the rgb versions of these profiles - just the
> greyscale printer profiles. I also do not use PWP but if you are able to
> work in greyscale then you apply the greyscale ICC profiles to your 
> prepared
> greyscale file just prior to printing (or on the fly at printing).
>
>
> > From: Scott McLoughlin <scott@...>
> > Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 19:54:59 -0400
> > To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Digital BW] 2400 - Paper issues
> >
> > Steve,
> >
> > Thanks. I renamed the rgb files targeted at Qimage to ".icm" 
> extension and
> > the profiles show up on PWP's Transformation->Color->Change Color 
> Profile
> > dialog.
> >
> > Converting an image to RGB Lab has a slightly bluish cast, but looks 
> good.
> >
> > But converting to RGB Matte Paper makes for an interesting looking image
> > with quite goldish tones, and the darkest tones "cut off" to a beige-ish
> > tone.
> >
> > Is this normal, or am I likely doing something wrong?
> >
> > Scott
> >
> > Steve Kale wrote:
> >
> >> The currently distributed profiles are designed to be used with QTR
> >> and can
> >> be used by any colour managed software that can invoke QTR as the 
> printer
> >> driver. They assume that the greyscale produced has linear L*. The 
> photo
> >> profile has a lower black point than the matte. But Roy has some 
> very cool
> >> stuff to come shortly.
> >>
>
>
>
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