Digital BW, The Print

With Epson's ABW driver you can convert an RGB color image to b/w
right inside the driver. You can let ABW print it "straight" or add a
warming or cooling tint. This printer driver conversion will be
different than if you convert it yourself in Photoshop. You've got
lots of ways to do the conversion in Photoshop, from
Image>Mode>Grayscale to harnessing the myriad of options in
Calculations. And CS3 offers a new and much more intuitive method.
The downside to using ABW is that it is not color-managed; you can't
see onscreen exactly how the image will print, as you've discovered. A
$50 solution is to use Roy Harrington's QTR. With his software and an
Eye One spectrophotometer you can soft proof a grayscale image and
print it through the ABW driver with a custom profile.
-- 
amadou diallo
Author, Mastering Digital Black and White
www.masteringdigitalbwbook.com

Amadou,
I followed your link to Amazon for your book but could not find it. When
will it be released?
Thanks,
Gary W.


  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Prints on R2400
  Author, Mastering Digital Black and White
  www.masteringdigitalbwbook.com


  


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Gary,
Thanks for the interest. I'm awaiting confirmation of a revised date
from my publisher. I'll be posting both shipping and pre-order info at
www.masteringdigitalbwbook.com/fourms.

On 4/8/07, gcwagner <gcwagner@...> wrote:

> Amadou,
>  I followed your link to Amazon for your book but could not find it. When
>  will it be released?
>  Thanks,
>  Gary W.
-- 
amadou diallo
Author, Mastering Digital Black and White
www.masteringdigitalbwbook.com

In a message dated 4/8/07 5:05:07 PM, corkie@... writes:


> I have an Epson R2400. When I use the ABW I get great
> B&W prints, but it's not the same as I just converted on the screen.
> 
There is no ICC-based color management with Epson's AWB (or any of the new B&
W printer functions in the various brands). To get that type of control you 
need an ICC profile that you can use for softproofing.

> Do I need to use the 'color' function for those particular B&W's?
> 
For any B&W or tinted B&W where you want to use visual adjustment of either 
the densities or the tonality (or both) an ICC profile-based solution is most 
effective.

>  I'm
> wasting a lot of expensive paper.
> 
Which was the biggest arguement for ICC-based solutions for color printing; 
now the same goes for B&W and tinted B&W.

>  Will the printer print B&W from any
> old color image that is not converted?
> 
No knowing what you will get if you toss a full color image at any B&W output 
mode. But a desaturated B&W is predictable, previewable, and a perfectly 
legitimate way to print B&W or tinted B&W.

>  Did I waste my money and time
> on a B&W conversion plug-in for Photoshop?
> 
No, not necessarily. I use a wide range of methods to convert my images to 
either neutral RGB, grayscale, or tinted RGB, then use PrintFIX PRO 2.0 gray 
augmented ICC profiles to print to the latest Epson, HP, and Canon printers.

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Unit
Datacolor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com



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In a message dated 4/8/07 8:35:05 PM, amadiallo@... writes:


> A
> $50 solution is to use Roy Harrington's QTR. With his software and an
> Eye One spectrophotometer
> 

QTR and an EyeOne is not a $50 solution; its more expensive than the 
alternative you failed to mention... PFP2.

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Unit
Datacolor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com


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