Digital BW, The Print

So, if say I buy one of these profiles for my 1280 with color inks, does
this mean I could print, toned black and white photos that stay that tone
and do not shift over night?  IS that what a profile does for you?  I think
I may have profile envy...

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Tucker [mailto:mark@...] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 10:48 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Photo Rag -- results less than expected

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "chipcarterdc" 
<chipcarterdc@h...> wrote: 
> (4) The standard response: get a custom profile (yes I 
recognize the 
> value of this; no, I have not decided to get custom profiles 
made 
> yet).

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Printing neutral B/W imagery is about the hardest thing to do in 
whole world, using color inks. Easy to print B/W imagery; very 
hard to do it and keep it neutral.

So, even though I won't hit you over the head with the "standard 
response", I'll simply quote it above.

It's simply not fair to expect that printer to print perfectly neutral 
B/W without a custom profile. You might hit by accident, but you 
don't really have the right to complain if you don't get a profile.

I will say, however, that the canned profiles that came with my 
Ultrachrome 96 are extremely good. Especially the Archival Matte 
profile.

Try it under these conditions:

* Media type: Archival matte
* DPI: 1440
* HiSpeed: Off
* No Color Adjustment
* SuperMicroWeave: Off

PrintDriver: ColorManagement:

Source> Adobe98RGB
Destination> 2200 Archival Matte MK

* File should be RGB.

* Monitor should be calibrated, but if not, use Info Pallette over 
several areas. View RGB values to make sure they're neutral, ie 
145R/145G/145B. Or, in RGB, choose Desaturate to throw your 
values back to neutral.

Try all that, but seriously, just get a profile and much of this 
anguish goes away immediately.

http://www.profilecity.com

MT


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