Digital BW, The Print

How are people using the B&W adjustment layer in CS3?  Do editing in color first, then go to 
B&W adjustment and discarding color data (or not), going straight to B&W adjustment layer 
and then editing, some combination of both?  I've tried various approaches and haven't come 
up with an opinion yet.  Anyone out there have some thoughts?

For what it's worth, I've been using an Epson 2200 with the standard UC inkset running QTR 
for B&W with very good results assuming the pizza wheel doesn't bind up and put a scratch 
down the whole print.  Might say I have a love/hate relationship with Epson.

FWIW, I open my image as an ACR smart object, then add capture
sharpening, then add a BW adjustment layer (or channel mixer layer) to
convert to BW, then do the rest of my adjustments on top of that.
Often I later go back to the ACR object and/or the BW layer and tweak
them. 

Sometimes, in the ACR object/hue-sat tab, I boost saturation or modify
hue so that the BW layer has more to play with.

Hope this helps, Robert, and if anyone has a different workflow to
suggest I would love to hear it.

  - susan

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Gaunt"
<rh.gaunt@...> wrote:
>
> How are people using the B&W adjustment layer in CS3?  Do editing in
color first, then go to 
> B&W adjustment and discarding color data (or not), going straight to
B&W adjustment layer 
> and then editing, some combination of both?  I've tried various
approaches and haven't come 
> up with an opinion yet.  Anyone out there have some thoughts?
> 
> For what it's worth, I've been using an Epson 2200 with the standard
UC inkset running QTR 
> for B&W with very good results assuming the pizza wheel doesn't bind
up and put a scratch 
> down the whole print.  Might say I have a love/hate relationship
with Epson.
>