Digital BW, The Print

finally took the plunge and  started up my new epson 2200, only to 
discover it would not work and got a brand new one in return 
yesterday.  finally printed after setting my front end and back end 
for black only as per claytons recommendations. discovered I dont 
have matte black inks. . . . will order eboni today and pick up some 
matte black locally. Delighted with my first attempts at color! 
(Black only not ticked),not as hard as  I thought with out  color 
mamagement software, icc profiles,  imageprint and all the rest that 
has been scaring the daylights out of me.  However,  now that I have 
the settings for black, and want to print in color what settings 
have to be changed back in order to do so other than the black only 
box?  Do I have to change both front end and back end?

Jerry

Hello Jerry,

Glad to hear you got it going.

>now that I have the settings for black, and want to print in color 
>what settings have to be changed back in order to do so other than 
>the black only box?  Do I have to change both front end and back end?

I'm not a color expert and hardly ever do it, but here's the little
bit I've noticed.  The color image will be in RGB mode, so it's front
end will be different (whatever is the apps default color setting). 
The back end will still be Same As Source.  All that needs to be done
is to uncheck "Black Ink Only".  All these settings can be saved to
make it easier to switch from one to another.

Beyond that, color management is a vast subject of which I know
little.  For a good book I recommend "Real World Photoshop".

Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm