26/6/03 5:46 pm Paul Tansley <pt44-at-mac.com> wrote
>On 26/6/03 4:14 pm, "S& P Kappel" wrote:
>
>> Dear Ed- you will most likely always have to deal with a colour cast as
>> soon as you choose to print with all the colours turned on on your printer-
>> the way I do it is to desaturate the image (not greyscale) and then either
>> print it as duotone (there at least you can influence the colour cast) or
>> print it only with black colour.
>
>Printing pure black & white appears to be fairly easy. Sorry if that sounds
>a little cocky, but printing anything without a custom profile, is IMHO
>madness. Printing B&W without one must be nigh on impossible. With one, its
>sooooo easy.
>
>Please, please, please people, get your printers custom profiled :-)
>
I couldn't agree more
Thomas/Pixl and I set up our service a few years back mainly because of
the interest we got onprodig, and the happy customers we had.
Unfortunately many a manufacturer's <sales patter> is less that
helpful since it often raises unrealistic expectations.
Regards, NeilB. Apple Solutions Expert
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