Digital BW, The Print

Carl-
Perhaps this is obvious to others, but what is the logic of using the 
profile (in an ICM workflow I gather) and then sending it to the ABW 
driver?  And are these paper-specific profiles?  And why use the ABW 
driver at all?  Etc.

Many thanks,
Walt


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield 
<scho@m...> wrote:
> Clayton,
> 
> I've found that a custom gray icc profile, used  as the print 
space  
> when using 3p papers with the Epson 2400 in ABW mode, 
significantly  
> improves linearity and smoothness.  This is particularly true for  
> matte papers.  I use the QTR-Create-ICC script that Roy provides 
in  
> the QTR 2.3 download package to make the gray icc print profiles.
> 
> Carl