Optimising scanning for emailing to printers?

[Threeracers]

I have a V700 and Photoshop but must confess all I ever do is scan at 3200dpi and little else. Very occasionally I will tweak the brightness and although I dislike that over processed look (might as well shoot in digital if you want that) I am sure I am not taking advantage of the software.

I now want to get a couple of shots printed and although Ilford will let me post a negative I think I would like to scan something myself. I would also like to crop a little on one particular shot. Ilfords website gives some pointers but when it starts to note this in the following in the tutorial I think I might need a bit of help;

"By default we don't correct images in any way so it is important your images are optimised ready for printing. Modern LCD monitors are very high contrast and often make shadow arears apear blacker than they actually are. It is important to check your files feature a full range of tones and that blacks really are 100% K despite how they appear on the screen. If your blacks are only 90% K your prints will look flat."

I often hear people say that the scanning process softens and I should sharpen or add contrast to compensate that but do you all do similar automatically?

I would appreciate any pointers for a basic workflow with a view to printing.

TIA

Mark

 

[Threeracers]

Following on from that Ilford like 300dpi, Greyscale and don’t do anything to the image but Peak Imaging seem to do a little more – possibly of more benefit to colour images - and want sRGB and 254dpi.

Do you chaps scan black and white images in Greyscale or colour?

M

 

[wickerman]

Loxley Colour have a helpful guide covering colour management, settings etc. : https://www.loxleycolour.com/colourmanagement.aspx