Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
>
> If you have a monotone RGB file you can still convert
> to a greyscale output ICC profile for printing.
> You don't need an "RGB monotone ICC profile".

First Tom - thanks for your clarification about why you want the RGB
create profiles.

Steve - the reasons I want a monotone RGB profile are twofold.

1.  Although I have to print to file when using Qimage with QTR, I
want to make it as seamless as possible.  With the RGB profile, I have
QTR monitor the print to file directory, and printing starts
automatically.  If I was to convert to grayscale between Qimage and
QTR, it makes the process more tedious.  I'd have to open the image in
PSCS and do the conversion manually, and then send it to QTR.  Not a
big deal once, but every time ...?

2. I did try this once or twice, and I noticed that the histogram
shifted to the left when I flattened the image from three channels to
one, and the print via QTR was correspondingly darker.  This probably
merely illustrates that there is another aspect of colour/gray
management that I don't understand, and I did this conversion the
wrong way, but it serves to illustrate that using the RGB profiles
when printing through Qimage really is convenient.

This is one area where a mac would be useful, although I think that PC
users are still better off with Qimage, given that it means that you
don't need to create copies of images for printing - as Qimage does
all the resampling and resizing on-the-fly.

F-P