Others say...

"Digital B&W shooting and printing reference"
This book was recommended on internet fora on printers and inkjet printing and they were absolutely right. This is a well written book for photographers who wish to go deep in the world of B&W shooting and inkjet printing.
It is necessary to have a little background in photography and Photoshop, but with this background the book is very informative and thorough. Amadou Diallo has a gift for teaching and he can explain difficult concepts in a simple way.
The information in the book more than covered my needs and has helped me in shooting and printing better B&W images.

"Not at all just for Digital Black and White"
I bought this book because I was interested in better digital black and white workflows. The interesting thing, however, is that all of the book's excellent and clear topics are applicable to the color digital workflow as well.

Well written; easy to understand; and quite comprehensive especially when dealing with arcane issues that I've never seen dealt with in print before such as L* monitor gamma calibration.

Highly recommended!

"Outstanding Book"
This is a really excellent book for those interested in serious B&W digital printing. The book is extremely well written and researched.

Because of the software and equipment-specific references, the book will probably have to be updated from time-to-time to remain current. However there is enough excellent general material that the book will be useful to anyone who purchases it now for a long time to come,

"Disappointed"
If you've managed to get some decent looking B&W prints from your current model inkjet using the relevant inbuilt driver settings and looking to move your output quality up a notch, this book sadly won't help you. Though there's some mention of Quadtone RIP and StudioPrint for linearization (plus alternative third-party inksets) the detail isn't there to show you why and how to get the most from them. In fact, the whole area of selection of media settings for optimal Dmax and tonal separation is absent. What's left is a rudimentary workflow that most anybody using Photoshop for their own output would already know. For someone just starting out, this could be an ideal book to paint the big picture though.

A few bloopers: On perceptual rendering: "When an image contains even a single color outside of the printer's gamut, all the color values in the image are shifted - by the same amount - until the out-of-gamut color is placed inside the printer's range of output" (page 85). On printer profiling: "The idea is to send a range of color values to the printer and compare the appearance of these colors when output on paper with known Lab input values" (page 95). On adjustment layers: "... when it comes time to flatten the image, Photoshop will combine the adjustments into a single edit before applying them to the image's pixels" (page 193).

In fairness to the author, I can't think of any book that meets the stated promise of the title any better. Other than being more up to date, it doesn't really cover much territory different to Harald Johnson's "Mastering Digital Printing" which remains a worthwhile introduction to the field.

"A Must Read for learning to print digitally either color or Black and White"
From capture to the digital Fine Art Print, Amadou Diallo will explain the tools of the trade in plain, patient language. He is a master printer and an excellent teacher. He'll take you shopping, and then show you how to select and use the technology to bring the best out of your images. I'm in my 70's, retired from professional photography, and now scanning and printing from my old files for exhibits. It wasn't easy for me to re-think the photo processes I had mastered and make the transition into digital, so I've been soaking up bits and pieces of technique and concepts for about 4 years now. This book wraps it all up into a coherent, step by step procedure to establish your own workflow to maximize print quality for your images. It's the book I've been waiting for.
Richard Massie, Photographer