Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Dan Culbertson 
<danculb@b...> wrote:
(snip)

Dan,

Well that gets printed out for the "How To Binder"

> 
> Maybe I should summarize:
> 
> Set your default working space to either 1.8 or 2.2 (either one is 
good, I
> use 2.2)
> Scan your negative into that working space or scan it and open it 
with no
> conversion.
> Once opened, assign that grayscale working space to the file if 
your default
> settings don't do that already.
> Adjust your file so that it looks good on the monitor.
> When you are ready to print, choose Adobe RGB gamma x.x in the 
print space
> drop down dialog ("Adobe gamma x.x" is the edited Adobe RGB working 
space
> you created and saved as a profile).
> Set your printer color sliders according to the workflow 
recommendations and
> print.
> 
> That should be it. You need to create multiple versions of Adobe 
RGB with
> different gammas and select the one which works best, but once you 
do that
> you have a monitor-to-print calibration profile which takes you 
through RGB
> and applies a gamma.  Note that I am not at all sure why you need 
to go
> through RGB with the workflow, but since converting to RGB was a 
part of the
> original workflow I just gave you a way to do apply a quick RGB 
calibration
> curve to that process.  If I were using it I think I'd just skip 
the RGB
> part, and in the RGB step above just apply a grayscale dot gain in 
the
> printer space dialog instead and then set my sliders.  Which ever 
of the
> standard dot gains worked best would be the one I'd select as 
standard from
> then on.  Unless you need to significantly change the slider 
settings then
> you would have to come up with a new dot gain for those settings.
> 
> PS -- I've found that it is very helpful to have a couple of fifths 
of
> Absolut around when trying to figure out workflows and how to use 
them.
> 
Are you absolutly sure about that?

Martin