Digital BW, The Print

Really? I charge $450 for one! ;-) But seriously, I don't want to step  
on toes if people are making money around the profile thing.  I've  
seen an s-load of bad prints from my clients who are doing ABW and not  
color-managing. I end up giving them a gray-ramp and teaching them how  
to print the target and building them a profile all just so I don't  
have to mess with bad proofs constantly. In the long run it would be  
easier for me to just point them to a website and say, follow the  
instructions. I figure it would be easier for all of us. It's really  
fast to build ABW profiles so it wouldn't take much of my time.

In the long run, I want color managed ABW to become part of the  
printing culture just like ICC profiles are with color printing. So  
I'm trying to spread it big-time so it becomes common practice among  
not only technical people but every-day photographers that use ABW.

I've had really good results with ABW ICCs. I figure they could be  
spread around a bit.

Now I'm going to bed. I will wait for more feed-back before I start on  
something like this.

all the best,
Walker