[pure-silver] Re: 50% Off-Topic

B&W photos should be saved as greyscale if you're sending it to offset printers, you could also ask for your offset printer's greyscale profile and assign it to your image. With a grayscale image, it will be printed using K (Black) inks only so no color cast. Depending on your budget and the quality you want, you could also go duotone or quadtone. It would be best if you have calibrated monitors so you could soft-proof. Print a proof on your inkjet, if you're happy with it, send the print-out along with the file to your printer. They should be able to match it. Proofs are free and are part of the whole process, since without the proofs and without your approval on the proof, they should not be able to run. 

On 27.03.2007, at 15:06, Adrienne Moumin wrote:
This is also 50% on-topic because it directly concerns silver images. I don't mean to step on any toes, so if someone thinks this is inappropriate for the list, please let me know on- or off- list so we can take the whole discussion off-list. But I think this is a pertinent discussion of necessity as times change and we are committed to doing (and sometimes promoting!) what we love within that context.
I am having a devil of a time trying to make sense of the process of getting biz cards & postcards printed of my silver images. I recently tried an online printer, which after 3 hrs. of phone calls & online chat during which everyone seemed stumped and clueless about the correct file specs for B&W photos, I followed the advice given to me and ended up w/blue images on the cards. The return procedure is cumbersome since they turn a blind eye to my e-mails and phone messages about refunding my money. But I am chipping away at it, I think I finally found someone there with a brain and some compassion for what I have been through.
It seems that everyone these days uses a CMYK press, which is pretty inefficient in rendering grayscale images. Do bricks-n- mortar commercial printers have other presses capable of doing this type of output? I am trying to gain a vocabulary and understanding of the process so I can move ahead and get good, repeatable results.
I called one local printer for some info, and after he got done apologizing for laughing(!!!) when I told him I am looking to get B&W photos on cards, said the photoshop file should be done in grayscale instead of CMYK. And they would tell me when to go over there to look at a press-proof, free of charge, as they were about to print the job (sounds like unheard-of customer service to me, I'm inclined to try them on that basis alone since press-proofs are becoming increasingly rare, therefore incurring usurious charges.)
Thanks in advance for any guidance, I am nearly bald from tearing my hair out over what seems like it should be such a simple thing. 

-Adrienne Moumin

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