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Re: [Digital BW] Time to dive in

2002-08-29 by Julian Thomas

Erm don't mean to contradict but from the Mac colour gurus on the Prodig
list 1.8 gamma for the mac ONLY if the monitor is a Mac-badged monitor

Julian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Olson" <jerryolson@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Time to dive in


> Use 1.8 gamma on a Mac, and 2.2 on a PC. But if you are going with the
> MIS VM inks, you need to convert to a RGB file before printing, and Use
> one of Paul Roark's curves. You can then get anything from a cold tone
> to a warm tone.
>
> Jerry
>
> > I've decided to try MIS VM in an 1160.  My G4 set in the 1160 and 3rd
> > party dyes in the 1290 just don't cut it for black and white.
> >
> > What I'm uncertain about is the greyscale working space to use.  My
> > PS colour preferences are set to US prepress defaults (dot gain
> > 20%).  However, I remember reading somewhere about using grey gamma
> > 2.2.  Why would that be so?
> >
> > K2
> >
> >
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