Digital BW, The Print

does anyone have experience to share with outputting grayscale files 
to a Frontier or Lightjet and printing neutral greyscale images on 
col paper ?
thanks
Frank

Frank - I use a lab that has a Fuji Pictrography printer and a LightJet
printer.  When I want b&w output, I typically work the file in Photoshop as
a grayscale image, but then convert at the end to RGB which those machines
want.  I have had the lab run some tests for me, so I know what to do to
tweak the files to get them the tone (or the lack of tone) that I want.  I
would encourage you to do the same.  My lab provided me with profiles for
the machines (and the different papers that they run in them) so that I can
soft-proof in Photoshop to see what the images will look like in their
system.


Stephen Petegorsky
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web site - www.spphoto.com

In a message dated 9/4/02 5:11:12 PM, frank@... writes:

>does anyone have experience to share with outputting grayscale files 
>to a Frontier or Lightjet and printing neutral greyscale images on 
>col paper ?

Thats the true test of the color profile for these devices; if you can get a 
neutral gray print; you've got a good (and current) profile!

C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
CDTobie@...