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Well, hmmm, I respectfully suggest that it isn't helpful to ignore anyone (except young-earth creationists). :Big Laugh We all have our little collection of knowledge, and bob is going to be correct on some things, and may have some blind-spots on others. The thing that I hope we can all do...

Here's a before & after example of what the HiSpot filter does:

Josh: I did some more test prints yesterday (with one of the same photos I've been test-printing) but using the channel mixer method, and there was absolutely no difference in the tones (pink/green etc) than I was getting with the gradient map B&Ws. But, you may be correct that the CM method...

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Might the Channel Mixer method give me wildly different results than Gradient Map when printing on my Roland SPi? I'll give it a try, but boy I really have gone through a fair bit of media & ink in the last few days, and don't want to try all those possible setting combinations all over again.

Why? (I've always found that I get the best results that way). Does it present problems for printing?

Ok, after much more adjustments & testing, I've come to what I feel is the best B&W photo settings so far. Here's the recipe: Color photo in Photoshop, turned to B&W using the following method: Crop to desired size. Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Gradient Map > Black & White. Layer > Flatten...

Let's not get personal, it's just ink. I prefer to simply follow the evidence no matter who offers it.

Likely true. I've noticed that those times when I had Roland spot colors applied to vector files, it printed matching my color swatch no matter what I printed on, or the media or profile that was selected in VW.

I see that y'all are a weak bunch of individuals who feel that sleep is necessary. :Big Laugh :Big Laugh :Big Laugh

Cool.......thanks. I haven't the foggiest idea of where to start.

Hmmm, I'll have to try this tomorrow too.

But can't it be done in the way I did earlier by changing it to Grayscale in PS (Image > Mode > Grayscale) and "Preserve Primary Color" (PPC) in VW checked "off"? Unfortunately as I possibly have one nozzle out on my K head, I had unsatisfactory results. So if it weren't for that, couldn't one...

Bear with me, but could you clarify that last part? Oy. I'd need to be hand-held through all of that; and might it cause grief in other areas? Would it effect the use of the Roland color palette system? Link. .

And one other thing I failed to mention: Any of my B&W photos will print wonderfully on my little Canon desktop printer, looking like a B&W should, but not on the Roland.

Thanks for that bob. As I've said before, I'm fairly new to the digi-printing party, and have much to learn, but I'm keen to learn and know that I don't know certain things (as opposed to those who feel that just hitting the print button is good enough). I'm comfortable with printing vector...

Good point. The little Canon gets glossy photo paper, which is whiter than the 54" roll of Rite Media matte paper for the Roland. Perhaps I should cut a piece of the Rite Media paper at 8.5x11 and run it through the Canon. And perhaps I should have bought gloss paper for the Roland?

Hmmm, ok, thanks. I just bought five 16x20 frames which I'll fill with mat & photos, yet the print needs to be 10x14 which obviously exceeds my desktop printer, so given that I will use my Roland for those few very large photo prints (and most of those would be B&W), I'm thinking about a larger...

This might be an elementary question, but as I've been printing off some of my photos lately, it occurred to me that my little Canon Pixma iP4300 desktop printer has a much better gamut than my Roland SP540i, yet both are just CMYK. Is the Roland's gamut narrower because the inks are solvent?

I'm surprised at the lack of replies on this. Does nobody have experience with software such as Noise Ninja etc? I'm wondering too if the noise reduction feature in Photoshop 5 is comparable.