Digital BW, The Print

For the mac, calibrate your monitor at 1.8, but work in 2.2 for your
grayspace.  Ideally you want to tag the original scan with a 2.2 space.  If
you are scanning in RGB and then converting, scan in Adobe 98 (which is
gamma 2.2) and then convert to grayscale.  Likewise with a digital camera
shoot in Adobe 98...or the native gamma 2.2 colorspace for your camera
(e.g., Nikon Adobe 98). Make sure your colorspace for grayscale in photoshop
is set for gamma 2.2...then it will automatically set gamma 2.2 when you do
the rgb to grayscale conversion.  The rgb workflows work best with gamma
2.2.  I personally use Imageprint, which will technically work with any
gamma that you tag to the file, because it is color managed, but I work in
2.2 and get perfect screen to print matching.  For the piezo plugin you may
have to then convert from gamma 2.2 to a custom dot density function to get
final good matching.

Robert

On 10/5/02 4:07 PM, "Jerry Olson" <jerryolson@...> wrote:

> Everybody says 1.8 for mac, but never says why. I guess I'll have to run
> a couple 
> comparison tests....
> Jerry
> 
> Stephen Kobrin wrote:
>> 
>> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson
>> 
>> Jerry,
>> 
>> I have been setting the gamma in the PS color settings dialogue.  I
>> have not thought about the print settings and need to check that.
>> Where is the third place?  I should think that they would all have to
>> be consistent.  I still wonder which is preferred -- 1.8 or 2.2?
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> <jerryolson@r...> wrote:
>>> If you wanted to try a 2.2 gamma setting to see the difference
>> between
>>> it and the 1.8, where would
>>> you set it? In the photoshop color settings page, or the epson
>> final
>>> print dialogue box, or in one of the
>>> earlier dialogue box? There's at least 3 places you can set it.
>>> 
>>> J
>> 
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