Digital BW, The Print

Thanks David,

That is what I thought & will continue to do.

Phil




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From: Cdtobie <CDTobie@...>
To: "DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com" 
<DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, April 5, 2011 5:16:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Calibration of Spectro

  
>>A quick question- what do most people use to calibrate the spectro prior to 
>>measuring the printed 21 step grayscale? I am using a Spyder3 and never thought 
>>to use anything other than the calibration device that comes with it until last 
>>night when I was reading the instructions for the Tiffen 20 step grayscale. 
>>Tiffen recommends using the paper white the 21step grayscale was printed on.

That would produce relative readings (if not just plain wrong readings). Use the 
white tile the device ships with; anything else is incorrect. 


C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Imaging Color Solutions
Datacolor inc. 
cdtobie@...
www.datacolor.com

On Apr 5, 2011, at 6:40 PM, "grimmieoldfart" <grimmieoldfart@...> wrote:

> A quick question- what do most people use to calibrate the spectro prior to 
>measuring the printed 21 step grayscale? I am using a Spyder3 and never thought 
>to use anything other than the calibration device that comes with it until last 
>night when I was reading the instructions for the Tiffen 20 step grayscale. 
>Tiffen recommends using the paper white the 21step grayscale was printed on.

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