Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 8/16/02 6:00:43 PM, akivisuals@... writes:

>Hey all.  I've been testing a few papers on my 1520 with 
>Piezography BW inks and using the Piezo software.  I printed out 
>a file that looked great on the EAM that I'm using as a proofing 
>paper.  But, when I printed the same file on Somerset Photo 
>Enhanced the darker greys and blacks printed considerably 
>darker than the EAM even when using the profiles in the Piezo 
>software.  Is this a normall occurence?  Will I always have to test 
>my output on the final paper?  I thought that the purpose of 
>having profiles was to alleviate this problem.  

But alleviating the problem would be like making all race cars go as slow as 
the slowest one... unless you limit the blacks of all papers to the same 
black as the weakest paper, then they won't all match. If you want to emulate 
one paper on another, that can be done through cross profile emulation 
proofing, but it only works if the gamut of the proofing paper is as large as 
or larger than the gamut of the paper being emulated... and generally, in 
this context, the cheaper papers we would use for quick proofs would have a 
smaller gamut, not a larger one.

C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
CDTobie@...