Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Todd Flashner <tflash@e...> wrote:
> Can I borrow your glasses? On my gradients (4x6" @ 300dpi) I could see no
> difference without applying pretty strong tonal moves.
I didn't try it on grads

> just did a gradient and converted to AdobeRGB with and without dither, then
> applied a separation curve (selected somewhat arbitrarily, but trying to
> pick one that is middle of the road: Roark's 1160 NC curve) and I could see
> no difference. But I ain't got your eyes.
I doubt I could either, I was converting to sRGB which had much more of it than AdobeRGB, and it was on patches not grads. 
My eyes aren't that good. If anything I would think dithering might make grads artificially smoother, like adding noise to 
color banding problems. However all that ever did for me was leave me with color bands with noise. I was just not thrilled 
with seeing PS inject non image tones into my file, I felt somehow violated, shamed, no longer pure. Would I have to rescan 
for a virgin file?
This all started with the potential problems with converting to sRGB from 2.2 gray, among other things. Actually I don't even 
remember.
Well, I have laundry to do.
Make a print.
Tyler