Digital BW, The Print

Having recently aquired the Epson 3800, and it is my first K3 printer 
with ABW printing option, I have a question about printing from 
Photoshop.

Normally, when printing a color photograph, I would choose to have 
Photoshop manage colors and turn color management off in the printer 
driver.

My question is, when using ABW is the procedure the same, or do I want 
to have the printer manager the "color" or b&w tone in this case?

What would be the proper workflow for printing with ABW?

Thanks,

Ryan

Hello Ryan,

>Having recently aquired the Epson 3800, and it is my first K3 printer 
>with ABW printing option, I have a question about printing from 
>Photoshop.
>Normally, when printing a color photograph, I would choose to have 
>Photoshop manage colors and turn color management off in the printer 
>driver.
>My question is, when using ABW is the procedure the same, or do I
>want to have the printer manager the "color" or b&w tone in this 
>case?

I print using ABW with a 2400 and I assume the 3800 is the same, or at
least similar.  I set "No Color Management" in the Color Settings
picklist in the Photoshop Print Preview window.


>What would be the proper workflow for printing with ABW?

Article #10 at the link below contains a complete step by step
workflow for ABW.  It's written for the 2400 but I'm pretty sure it
will apply to the 3800 (people have used it with the 4800).  It lists
the color setting mentioned above plus several others.

Regards,
Clayton


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

Thanks Clayton!

Ryan,

OOPS!  sorry, I meant article #9.

Regards,
Clayton


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