Before I upgraded my Lightroom to version 2, I bought the Luminous Landscape LR video tutorial, and I thought it was good. It helped me to utilize the tool much better, and it was well worth the money. Fueled by this I went and bought the “Camera to print” tutorial as well.
This tutorial was nowhere near as useful to me. It skipped through the subjects from capturing the image to printing explaining in depth some of the aspects, but I didn’t feel it gave me much more than what I already knew. This of course is very individual, but for my part I had already read most of this at different web sites, like Luminous Landscape, Northlight images, Outback photo, and others. Especially I think they covered the art of B&W printing very lightly. Even thought the Epson Advanced B&W module is pretty good, it is still some black magic involved. You don’t get any soft proofing, and when you use non Epson papers, you may run in to problems. The tutorial just walked briefly though the printing of one single image without mentioning the use of the different controls in the driver for adjusting the tonality. I say this because I find the ABW module extemely difficult to use well. Much more than color printing where you have profiles and soft proofing.
The ImagePrint RIP on the other hand is better on BW printing simply because of profiling, but you still lack a decent soft proofing (there is a sorry excuse in page layout view…). However, when you print through that RIP, you can be pretty sure that the 255 value will be white, the 0 value will be as black as it gets, and all the other values are mapped on the straight line between. This is also the case with ABW using Epson papers, but not with third party papers that I usually use.