Digital BW, The Print

On 12-06-01 1:33 AM, "Ernst Dinkla" <e.dinkla@...> wrote:

> There is another way to get the Lab b on a zigzag course. Measure a
> target with heavy bronzing and the 45/0 degree reflection optics in a
> spectrometer are affected by the bronzing layers. The measured color is
> not 1:1 to what the eye sees in color of the bronzing but that is
> understandable given the spectrocam's light source and sensor as another
> light + another observer. In practice one would not select a B&W
> paper/ink combination that creates that much bronzing but in color
> printing it may be less obvious and play a role when colors are off
> after profiling. Grey range in color prints for example. I will put some
> QTR linearisation plots on my site to show the difference between a
> target with and without bronzing.

Not that's very interesting, and something well worth keeping in mind.

Would L* values suffer in this circumstance?

Terry.