Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Tom Husband <thusband@s...> 
wrote:
>
> Hi Ernst,
> 
> Converting to the QTR printer profile in PS and not using CM in Qimage 
> when printing to file shows the ICC profile to be Dot Gain 20% and not 
> the QTR profile after Qimage gets done with it.

Did you try printing it anyway? It may behave like PS, when a file is not color managed it 
assumes the default if a conversion is called for at some point. Obviously you can't ask it 
to convert to something without something to convert "from". It's possible qimage assigns 
it something, but if no conversion takes place down the line, because you have it set for 
none, it really doesn't matter if it gets tagged somewhere.
Badly written, hope it makes sense.
> 
> Steve's suggestion doesn't seem to work either. After converting to the 
> QTR profile in PS the image is grayscale and won't accept assigning an 
> RGB profile like Adobe 98.

That was predictable. You can't assign a profile or space to a file that is not in that mode, 
or same number of channels.
> 
> I think the only way is to bring it back into PS after Qimage and 
> convert it back to the QTR profile again.

I'd like to see qimage make a change with regard to this, the ability to output single 
channel, since many here use single channel input drivers.
I'm not thrilled with all these mode conversions, it's potentially lossy, and ultimately 
unnecessary.

Tyler