Digital BW, The Print

I completely agree Walker, and was joking. No toes to be worried about here.
Go for it.

Tyler

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Walker Blackwell <forums@...> 
wrote:
>
> 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
>