Digital BW, The Print

on 2/16/02 10:05 AM, mkravit wrote:

> Utilizing the Colorbyte Software ImagePrint 4 RIP I find that I have
> the option of printing with guadtone (hex) inks as either RGB or
> Grayscale image files.  That is, I can scan a negative in RGB mode as
> most people do, convert it to b/w using the channel mixer, but
> continue to save the image as a RGB file.
> 
> Can anyone see an advantage to this approach? I am not a digital-
> techno-geek ;-) and as such tend to simplify thing photographically
> as to, do they work or not. Perhaps Austin or some of out
> other "engineering types" could provide some understanable
> justification either for against leaving files as RGB and printing
> them as such.

Mike,

I hate to answer the call of the digital-techno-geek, as I don't even have a
spectrocam, let alone a spectrocam pocket protector, but the only advantage
I can see is the ability to keep your channel mix adjustment in place as an
adjustment layer, so you can reedit it later, perhaps for another paper, or
size, to change the feel, etc. IOW, for guys who hate to commit. ;-)

But once you've made your channel mix adjustment all channels are the same
at that point, so staying in RGB just has you maintaining a file size three
times as great.

Todd