Digital BW, The Print

Rejean - yes there is.  If you have a spectrophotometer such as an EyeOne,
you can (and should) use QTR Create ICC to profile the output of Epson Adv
B&W at each of your favourite settings.  You can use the ICC profile that's
created to give you full colour soft proofing and luminance management when
printing. I would not use the approach described below because it doesn't
help you with luminance management when you actually go to print.


> From: <CDTobie@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:57:47 EST
> To: <rejean94@...>, <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] [Epson-R2400] softproofing in advanced B&W
> 
> 
> In a message dated 1/12/06 10:31:23 PM, rejean94@... writes:
> 
> 
>> Are there any profiles to softproof images in that are printed in
>> advanced B&W when the color toning is different than neutral ?
>> 
> 
> There's really no direct way of defining what non-neutral tones are in this
> non-ICC system. But you can print a profiling target at a given set of
> settings, and build a color profile for that setup, then use that profile to
> softproof 
> those settings. As long as you could repeat the settings, the proof profile
> would remain valid. There would probably be some editing required to get that
> profile to be close enough. The ColorVision profiling engine has always done a
> surperior job of building preview profiles for B&W systems, so I assume it
> would be a good choice here as well. Guess I'll have to fire up a K3 printer
> and see what PrintFIX PRO will do in terms of K3 SoftProof profiles.
> 
> C. David Tobie
> Product Technology Manager
> ColorVision, Inc.
> CDTobie@...
> www.colorvision.com
>