Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Printing C-41 black/white
From: Adam Bridge <abridge@idea-processing.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 12:02:22 -0800

On 4/6/02 Gerry Walden  wrote:

>It is difficult to comment too much without knowing how you are scanning and
>printing. Scanning I would use RGB mode, and then do all the work in RGB or
>CMYK, using the black layer to adjust and burn/dodge and the convert back to
>RGB. This way if there is a shortfall in your red range you could adjust it.
>I then convert to greyscale just before printing and print with black ink
>only at 720dpi if I can, but 360 if not.

Why scan in color mode when the image is entirely grayscale in nature? What is
gained by treating the image as a color image since it's black and white anyway?

This is NOT a troll - I just don't understand.

Thanks

Adam
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