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Re: [Digital BW] Time to dive in

2002-08-30 by Jerry Olson

Julian, Most if not all Mac Monitors are or were made by Sony. Hence "Trinitron".

Jerry

Julian Thomas wrote:
> 
> Well again from the Mac colour experts - only monitors with a mac badge on
> the front. If anyone wants info on colour spaces and profiling the Prodig
> list is an amazing resource.  http://www.prodig.org
> This gamma thing re different platforms was gone into in some depth
> 
> Julian
> 
> J
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerry Olson" <jerryolson@...>
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 10:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Time to dive in
> 
> > I think its Trinitron, or is that what you meant by mac badged?  Anyhoo,
> > 1.8 works fine for me.
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> > Julian Thomas wrote:
> > >
> > > 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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