Digital BW, The Print

----- Original Message -----
From: "charlesdarwinau" <imaginaryapple@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 8:12 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: [newbie] epson 1160 or 1200


> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Martin Wesley"
> <mwesley250@e...> wrote:
> > Charles,
> >
> > I have very good WYSIWYG set up for the MIS-VM inks on Photo Rag
> using a
> > profile generated by Profiler Pro. After the RGB curve has been
> applied you

(snip)

>
> Thanks Martin for the reply, being a complete newbie I am a little
> bit confused about the "Matching Your Monitor View to Your Prints"
> article, does it permit MIS VM tones? so I get to WYSIWYG the tones?

Charles,

Tyler's method will give you a good neutral density match with each
combination of a specific curve and paper (a lot of the combinations will be
close enough that a single dot gain curve can be used for all of them). This
will meet most of your needs as far as previewing the effect of now changes
to the image on screen will effect the print. It is a grayscale match but
can be used with any workflow, even ones where you switch to RGB mode and
apply curves.
>
> Although im a complete novice in MIS inks, I have played around with
> pshop before and I wonder if I can use the Duotone/Quadtone mode in
> pshop to preview the prints? Basically Id apply Paul's curves to a
> set of quadtones (for VM it is the toner and the blacks) Has anyone
> tried this to preview their prints?

Well in giving it a try on screen it is interesting to note that it seem to
work except that the results do not resemble the on screen Quadtone image in
hue. You cannot apply the RGB separation curves in Quadtone mode and must
first convert to RGB. This conversion keeps the color info of the Quadtone
mode intact but this is all lost when you print with the VM inks since it
cannot duplicate the colors the Quadtone curves want to access. The basic
density of the image does seem to stay constant though.

Try printing some step wedges with this method and compare them to your
screen image of the wedge.
>
> The downside to this method is that you can't turn it on and off like
> in CMYK proof preview...

True. Give Tyler's method a try and see how it works for you. That you can
turn on and off I think that you will find it is pretty good. Try it with a
mono-ink print using the Epson inks.

Martin
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