Digital BW, The Print

"jrandall1149" <jrandall@...> writes:

> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "craig_spaulding" 
> <craig_spaulding@y...> wrote:
> > Jeff,
> > 
> > I have several questions re your transfer curves technique:
> > 
> > 1) Can the black and white points be set in Photoshop instead of 
> the 
> > scanner after the step-edge has been scanned? I work with a digital 
> > camera and my scanner is marginal and I don't think the black and 
> > white points can be set in the software.
> 
> I've had better luck setting the b/w points during scanning than 
> setting in my image editing software (your results may vary).  I use 
> VueScan as my scanning software and have found the histogram feature 
> to be very good. (www.hamrick.com). I use Picture Windows as my image 
> editing software because I think its curves/histogram feature is the 
> best of any editing package (I also use it for a lot more reasons, 
> but that's another post) (www.dl-c.com). I also have and occassionly 
> use PhotoShop 6.0 

The curves/histogram feature in Picture Windows is just *such* a
beauty, isn't it?  I also rather like being able to do *everything* in
16-bit-per-channel mode.  

But I miss layers, and I most super especially miss adjustment
layers.  I like non-destructive editing.

> 9)  Iterate until you are satisfied (or run out of paper or ink).

Now *there's* a realistic assessment!

I've really gotta try a partitioned flow.  It bothers me that my black
ink bottle goes down *so much* faster than the others. 

Um, you mentioned a "quad purge image", implying that it printed
things using the 4 inks individually.  Got an image to offer?  I'm
assuming it would look like bars in each of the CMYK colors?  
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