Digital BW, The Print

Dear Clueless,

Esentially you are correct. With grayscale I am printing a target of 224
shades of gray. All little squares ranging from pure black to pure white.
The target is then read on a PhotoSpectrometer and the resulting data is
compared to a standard and then adjustments are made. The resulting profile
is then used by the RIP to tell the printer how to lay down the ink to
achieve smooth tonal gradations. In a fully calibrated system, a scanner
profile tells the computer how the scanner does its work and makes
adjustments to ensure that the scan tonalities and colors are correct, the
monitor is profiled so that you see colors correctly and as they really are,
and the printer profile prints what the scanner scanned, the monitor saw,
and what you adjusted as you saw it on the monitor. (Austin will have a
field day with this one! ;-)).

I am printing target for 7 different papers using the MIS FS inks and the
ImagePrint 4 RIP. That way, what I see on my monitor will print on paper
without any posterization just the way I visualized it.

Mike


----- Original Message -----
From: "rmcooke" <rcooke@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 11:14 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Quadtone ICC Profiles for IP4


> Please pardon my ignorance concerning the ICC profiles but....