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I would not stress it too much since you are only printing a zine/booklet. If you were printing a very high quality book with something like varnish coated images it’s a whole other thing.

Have the printer you use make a few proofs first. Getting a good “neutral” gray will be the issue.

Mark
stillrivereditions.com

> On Aug 19, 2019, at 1:18 PM, per@... [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Off topic, but related to high quality B/W printing. I am an avid QTR user, and it is all I use for prints and digital negs. I now have a good set of prints in a series, and I am starting to make a B/W photo zine. I am doing my layout in InDesign, and I want it to be printed on a high quality digital printing press like the HP Indigo. My question is how to optimally set up for this kind of printing.
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> 1) Pictures should generally be submitted in CMYK. Given that I want the best printing range possible, what is the preferred way to do this conversion for a pure B/W picture? Clearly to get the darkest black, you want to not just generate CMYK values with the K channel set. 
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> 2) When discussing with the first print house I have been in touch with, I asked for ICC profiles for their digital printing press. I was told to just use the GRaCOL2006 profile. This seems clumsy. Do print houses not profile their individual presses/printers? 
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> 3) What else should one think about when preparing high quality BW pictures for modern booklet printing? Since this is going to cost a bunch of money, I want to make sure I do the best work on my end to get the best result. 
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> Sorry again if this is off topic, but this is the forum I know that is most likely to have people that have made their own high quality photo book/zines for commercial printing. Please feel free to refer me to an better forum if you know one. Any help much appreciated. 
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> Kind regards,
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> -Per
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