Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 5/8/02 3:23:14 PM, editor@... writes:

>I was wondering...
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>Simply profiling the inksets via Profiler Plus or Profiler Pro may not
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>be exact enough given the subtleties of greyscale...

That is probably an understatement... given the inksets you have in mind.
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>BUT,,,
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>Profiling could serve a use in the following way...
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>Supposing when doing the 1270/870 curves Dave FIRST profiles the ink and
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>media...
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>Then writes new transfer curves USING that profile...

Hmmm, you are suggesting basing a curve set on a profile... sounds like oil 
and water to me.

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>That could make the curves a hell of a lot more generic for that 
>printer... in the sense that by building other profiles one could 
>roughly adjust for media...
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>Instead of creating newly tweaked curves for each and every paper, one
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>could potentially simply profile the paper and then print via Paul's 
>Curves..

This would use the profile as a liniarization under the curves... which might 
or might not even be possible, but it certainly would manage to break all the 
rules.
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>Pauls' pre-existing curves would be fine for someone unwilling to 
>profile  or  adjust the curves for new media, while the "profile driven"
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> curves perhaps could be an intermediate level  solution for those 
>working with more media and profiling options..

Certainly some combination of curves and profiles is the ultimate solution, 
but it involves a CMYK RIP as well...

C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
CDTobie@...