Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 11-02-05 00:16  stuart@i... wrote:

>>My most success has been to print a grayscale tiff from within Quark,
>>tinting the tiff in Quark with a process color, which seems to give me a
>>bit more control over the final tint than using curves on an rgb file in
>>photoshop.
>Interesting!  (snip)... I'll give it a go!

Now, I can hardly believe this, but... I'm printing black & white!
And a gooood one!!
Stuart, IT WORKS! Cool range and absolutely neutral prints; also I can
control the sepia or whatever else tone (if needed, now), almost in a
WYSIWYG way and with repeatable results (enough exclamation marks).
I consumed my grey matter quite a bit during the last months and the
solution was there. And I should be an experienced XPress user; shame on me.
Stuart, if you happen to find yourself in Italy, remember you have a whole
Italian dinner paid.
I'll go more into this intelligent trick and share the results here: the
good point with good ideas, is that they produce more ideas (not necessarily
as good, though!).
Thanks.

-- 
Toti Calò (possibly in English)
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--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Toti Calò
<tical@g...> wrote:

> Now, I can hardly believe this, but... I'm printing black & white!
> And a gooood one!!
> Stuart, IT WORKS! 

good stuff :]

>Cool range and absolutely neutral prints; also I can control the
>sepia or whatever else tone (if needed, now), almost in a WYSIWYG way
>and with repeatable results (enough exclamation marks). I consumed my
>grey matter quite a bit during the last months and the solution was
>there. And I should be an experienced XPress user; shame on me.

believe me, i've been using the hp5000ps for 4 years now and i only
discovered this trick a month or so ago, and quite by accident.
It is by far the best way I've discovered of controlling the color
balance. 1 degree changes in PS curves would drastically change an
image from warm to cool and was quite frustrating.

> Stuart, if you happen to find yourself in Italy, remember you have a
whole Italian dinner paid.

:D
sounds great !

> I'll go more into this intelligent trick and share the results here:
the good point with good ideas, is that they produce more ideas (not
necessarily as good, though!).

hehheh yes quite true.

it is a great idea to write this procedure down somewhere for others,
as i've found what few users there are out there, that use this
printer with just the internal rip, all have the same problem.

> Thanks.

no problem. glad i have an answer for a change :]

good luck

stuart