Digital BW, The Print

I feel your pain. I'm in the middle of massive confusion myself on 
all that is to be done.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "slcphoto73" 
<slchapin@...> wrote:
>
> I also posted this to the WideFormat group, but think there may be
> some folks here who don't read that. Sorry if this is a problem for
> anyone.
> 
> I have a 3800 and a spectrophotometer and I make my own color ICC
> profiles using I1 Match3. I would LOVE to make my own BW profiles, 
but
> I cannot find anywhere a "Making your own BW profiles for dummies"
> explanation. Yes, I have gone to Eric Chan's wonderful site, and I
> have read Giorgio Trucco's explanation. And I have QTR and the 
Measure
> Tool. But I am confused still, possibly because I am missing 
something
> about "measuring ink densities" and "linearization" and QTR curves 
and
> ….  
> 
> If anyone knows of a simple, step-by-step description of the 
procedure
> with explanations for each step intended for people new to making BW
> profiles and therefore not assuming prior knowledge, please pretty
> please with sugar on top let me (and others) know about it.
> 
> Or, if someone is willing to be my tutor-by-email, let me know. 
Once I
> understand it I will write up the procedure for other newbies.
> 
> Meanwhile, I am using the Epson driver with ABW for BW printing as I
> am getting better results than with QTR out-of-the-box. 
> 
> Oh, and I wish there were a way around the Epson Vista 3800 driver's
> limitation of media types to only the Epson papers. Will making my 
own
> BW profiles (once I figure out how) for various 3rd party papers 
make
> this limitation moot?
> 
> Thanks for any and all help,
> 
>    - susan, slchapin@...
>