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From: "Shel Belinkoff"
Subject: Re: B&W digital print report
im glad you qualified that comment. there are a couple of labs here that
do exceptional b&w work on color paper. there's a huge photo of mother
theresa in the lobby of pictopia (http://www.pictopia.com/) that' b&w on
color paper that will knock your socks off.
Future shop is not an exceptional lab, apparently.
In order to get a mono print off colour paper, both the paper cureve and the
image curve has to be massaged. I have a very good mono profile on my
machine that I arrived at through much work, but if the files haven't been
equally profiled, there will always be a couple of tonal values that show a
bit of a cast.
Add to that, we see colour casts much more quickly in mono than in colour
prints, if the print is off by just a feww cc's, an overall colour cast will
be readily apparent.
I'm not saying it can't be done, but I have strong doubts that your labs are
doing volume production work, since to get it absolutely right, every print
will be a custom one off; a very time consuming task.
William Robb
