Currently Available Methods
There are a number of possible methods for creating inkjet digital prints. They involve
using color or tinted grayscale inks, using the manufacturer’s black and white
functions, color driver, or third party RIP drivers, and various control systems to
create curves or profiles. Some of these methods come free with your printer, while
others (typically those using special black and white inks with special RIPs) can cost
up to thousands of dollars. This tutorial is an basic overview, it does not contain
descriptions of all methods currently available. For those who already own
Spyder3Print for their color work, it offers the ability to control several of these
methods at no additional charge.
Methods Available Through Spyder3Print
There are three categories of black and white printing possible with Spyder3Print. The
simplest of these is to use the same Color Printer Driver you use for color printing, and
to augment your Spyder3Print color profiles with Extended Gray Data, then print your
black and white images through the Color Driver and Extended Profile. The second
Spyder3Print method is to use special ICC-profilable grayscale inks. This will limit your
printer (while these inks are installed) to black and white or tinted black and white
printing. The profiling process is as simple as profiling the printer for color, just print
and read the High Quality target, and print your black and white images. The final
black and white printing process that Spyder3Print can assist with is Linearization and
Profiling of black and white RIPs, specifically QuadTone RIP.
Descriptions of the available black and white inkjet printing methods are listed below.
Methods that can use Spyder3Print for measurements and data export have an
asterisk following the name, those that can be profiled directly by Spyder3Print have
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