Digital BW, The Print

> Dan,
> 
> Besides the Absolut for the daily cleaning of those pesky heads, what
> do you need to successfully run your RGB method?
> 
> I'm interested in giving it a try with the MIS VM inks and what is a
> reasonable spectrometer to make this work and not wipe out what's
> left of the bank account?
> 
> What's the best source for the Profiler Pro?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Martin

Not sure about the best source of Profiler Pro.  I'm still using the beta
version that I got as a beta tester (which was essentially the same as the
final release version).  Wish I could recommend a couple of different
profilers as options but Profiler Pro is the only one that I've tried that
doesn't choke on gray inks - though there may very well be others. If anyone
tries another package that works I'd be interested to know.   I told the
Profiler Pro folks that if they ever *fix* the software so that it notices
it is measuring the wrong color ink patch I would say many nasty things
after drinking way too much Absolut -- so they left that particular *error
proof* mode out of the software (which is why other profilers choke - the
profiler thinks a gray patch where there should be cyan, magenta and yellow
indicates an error and stops taking the data).

Any spectrophotometer which gives an Lab text file output will work with
Profiler Pro but with 729 patches needed for the highest quality profile a
hand held one would be a bit of a drag.  Tyler is using the SprectroCam and
says that works well.  I use the DTP-41 which I love but which seriously
depleted my toy account for most of one whole year (uh, I mean my
productivity tool account).  So I think the less expensive SpectroCam is the
going choice.

Dan Culbertson