Digital BW, The Print

Dave,

I imagine that your profile is based on a test print. If, 

(1) to produce the test print, you selected the same type of paper
that you are using now to print, and 

(2) you left the color controls "on" so that the driver color control
(with all slides set at 0) was affecting the test print, and 

(3) the default driver color control (with all slides set at 0)
linearization algorithm is similar to the one used in ABW (this is
just my guess; i don't know if this is true)

then I think that your custom color profile may be taking into account
the linearization performed by the epson driver when it prints in ABW
mode.   

In any case, if your workflow serves you well, I see no problem. 

Regards,

Manuel 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "David Keenan"
<ausdlk@...> wrote:
>
>  >So to linearize the output one must either (1) play with the ABW
> >settings, (2) create a PS adjustment curve, or (3) create a custom
> >profile based on the output obtained using the ABW.
> 
> This all gets complicated in a hurry...
> 
> I am printing using ABW using ICC profiles I created for the papers
I use
> (albeit color profiles) using PrintFix Pro.
> 
> Maybe something isn't supposed to work here but I am getting beautiful
> prints usually on the first try. So whatever isn't working is actually
> working fine for me.
> 
> Prints are basically perfect matches to what I see on the monitor.
> 
> So where's the problem in this method?
> 
> Dave.
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