Digital BW, The Print

Roy Harrington wrote:
> If you want color functionality then yes you should use a color workflow.
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> But I think there's a very fundamental difference in using a grayscale workflow versus a color workflow with reduced gamut. I recently did a show of 20 or so images. As a show I wanted the all the images with the same split-tone hue. I much prefer that all my image files are grayscale -- the split tone for me is a printing issue not a source image file issue. The notion of converting all the files to RGB and trying to match the color tones isn't at all appealing. Since the files are all grayscale I can print with any number of printers and/or inks and get the same fundamental image -- be it neutral gray, sepia, split-tone etc. This is much more akin to what B&W photography has always been.
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> Roy
And this is the way many (most?) of us would like to see it continue to be.

Thanks for making some sense Roy.

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Bruce Watson
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