I don't know where you're coming from with a statement like this. We're not talking about printing images one at a time from Photoshop. Minilab workflows applications like Labtricity, ROES, Photogize, EZ Lab, DP2, etc are geared towards printing potentially hundreds of thousands of images a shift. Stopping the whole thing so you can switch profiles just to print a few images in B&W that are in color is a mess. Keep it running, print those as black and white (one click) or as a toned black and white (two clicks) and keep moving. All of this is parametric and never requires file duplication. Profiles are for managing color across devices. Using abstract profiles for the purpose of color correction is a bad idea. There's a reason this functionality hasn't been replaced by something else. Scott Martin Onsight Precise photographic color and workflow training http://www.on-sight.com On Mar 27, 2012, at 9:48 AM, tyler@tylerboley.com wrote:
I recall the ColorShop grayscale profile ability, built from the same as the color profile. It was indeed a simple viable solution for a situation like yours. The workflow without it does make for some extra steps, some value judgements, and potential multiple version of files.