Digital BW, The Print

David

You first need to understand the principles of colour management.  It's not
mumbo jumbo.  The concepts are straight forward even if the technology to
apply them is sophisticated.  For general colour management tutorials see
here:

http://www.computer-darkroom.com/home.htm

I would also recommend Bruce Fraser's Real World Color Management book.
Understand the colour world and then learn how and why it breaks down with
B&W.

When people talk about curves they are most often not referring to anything
related to the colour management sphere.  They are talking about the
description files which control some of the RIPs out there.  For example, if
one is using Quadtone RIP to print B&W the greyscale output (and
particularly the hue) is controlled by selecting one "curve" or blending two
"curves" (eg warm/brown or cold/blue).

So you need to distinguish between "profiles", which are most often ICC
profiles for colour work and more recently QTR Create ICC profiles for B&W
work and are used for colour management, and "curves" which control RIPs
(made all the more confusing by Roy now filing the QTR curves under
profiles).

I hope this helps.

Cheers

Steve

PS:  Please trim your posts


> From: David Neely <dneely57@...>

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> I read all the time about downloading profiles and curves for various papers
> and printer combinations but for some reason I must not be using them
> properly. Could someone give me a quick tutorial on where to place them in
> PhotoShop CS and how to access them from the printer menu???
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> Any help would be much appreciated!
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> 
> David