Digital BW, The Print

I have finally successfully made and used profiles for printing
through the Epson ABW driver (on a 3800), but I have one more question. 

If I make one profile with setting ABW Dark, and another with ABW
Normal, all other driver settings the same, and then print the same
image from Photoshop first using one profile and then the other with
the driver settings appropriate to each, of course on the same paper,
will I see any difference in the print? That is, will Photoshop
compensate for the different tonality the driver is putting out or
will there still be differences?

Thanks for your help past and present with this fairly arcane topic.

  - susan

theoretically there should not be a difference, although I often find
there is with this kind of topic. It's not Photoshop that is supposed
to compensate, it's each profile.
It's worth looking closely though, one setting with it's appropriate
profile may to do more heavy lifting to correct than the other.
Carefully check dark near black shadows to make sure everything is
separating as it should.
Tyler
http://www.custom-digital.com/

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "slcphoto73"
<slchapin@...> wrote:

>
> I have finally successfully made and used profiles for printing
> through the Epson ABW driver (on a 3800), but I have one more question. 
> 
> If I make one profile with setting ABW Dark, and another with ABW
> Normal, all other driver settings the same, and then print the same
> image from Photoshop first using one profile and then the other with
> the driver settings appropriate to each, of course on the same paper,
> will I see any difference in the print? That is, will Photoshop
> compensate for the different tonality the driver is putting out or
> will there still be differences?
> 
> Thanks for your help past and present with this fairly arcane topic.
> 
>   - susan
>

Hi Susan. I don't quite understand. If you are using the ABW mode are you not selecting 'printer manages colors"?
Photoshop should be the dumb component then , not affecting the interpretation or taking into account any profiles. So you don't have color management nor soft proofing. I've only just made the first couple of ABW prints via CS4. I'll need to look more closely. 

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