Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 4/24/02 1:24:07 PM, frenchpassive@... writes:

>I'm using Lyson quad neutral inks on my 1280 with a continuous 
>flow system with great results. There is no special software 
>required....just convert your image to grey scale and then back to 
>RGB and print as normal after adjusting contrast etc in 
>Photoshop.....perfect results everytime. Needless to say, you 
>have to have your monitor balanced to the printer output 
>(lightness/darkness) to get an exact match.  I use the Knoll 
>gamma software to accomplish this.

As long as you are not using your monitor for anything else, then a closed 
loop process where the monitor is misadjusted to the printer is not 
completerly unreasonable. But for those who wish to work in color as well, or 
surf the web, or print with more than one quad printer, or driver, or inkset, 
or paper, the solution is to hardware calibrate the monitor with a Spyder and 
PhotoCAL, or for real control of the situation, OptiCAL, and then profile the 
quad printing process so that you can preview it accurately on the calibrated 
monitor.

This way instead of misadjusting the monitor in an attempt to match the 
print, you accurately profile both to a universal standard, gaining the 
flexibility of matching any other calibrated device or process with the 
simple change of a profile. Bet that's how Richard Wolfson is doing it! <G>

C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
CDTobie@...