Digital BW, The Print

Couldn't you create a profile of the printer and then convert to 
profile before you send it to winkflash?  I think DryCreek photo has 
a matte profile for them available for download.

I use Winkflash myself for glossy photos.  I have yet to find a 
paper for Epson printers that has a convincing gloss for B&W.

The only odd thing I noticed with Winkflash was that they seemed to 
have a high level of compression, or something similar.  A few shots 
of mine with smooth and solid colors looked noticably fuzzy, like 
jpeg artifacts.  Prints done from the same file on a different 
Frontier and on a Canon inkjet were far sharper.  This isn't 
something I've noticed more than a few times, but beware.

Roger

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter" 
<spamme2001@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> 
> For a number of reasons, I'm going to be producing a large 
quantity of
> B&W prints at Winkflash (obviously these are not fine art prints).
> I've printed several test prints, including a 21-step and 51-step
> wedge. Surprisingly, the photo printer(s) are very well behaved. I
> plotted the density curves and their shape and smoothness rivals
> linearized output from my in-house printers, except for the shadows
> where things start to block up in the 92-100% range.
> 
> So here's the challenge...I obviously don't have control over the
> Winkflash printers and they don't allow for embedded profiles 
either.
> They assume sRGB and disregard any profile. My plan is just to 
create
> a B&W ICC profile for soft proofing (using QTR-Create-ICC) and 
make my
> Photoshop corrections specific to that soft proof. 
> 
> Does making tonal corrections that are device dependent when you 
don't
> control the printer (and can't embed a profile) seem like a good
> approach? Is there a better way? 
> 
> Also, I have an X-Rite 810 densitometer, not a specto. Can
> QTR-Create-ICC be made to work with just density data?
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> Peter.
>