Digital BW, The Print

On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 09:48  PM, Roy Harrington wrote:

> Sounds like its pretty close.  I thank Carl for his efforts in working
> on the curve.  I think he did it by eye so everyone may see
> things a little differently.  The initial problem with the 2200 is
> the brown tone which is mainly neutralized by cyan.  There is
> a little magenta being added already but it sounds you'd like a
> little more.   Curves may sound daunting but just adding one
> color is pretty easy.  Print out a step wedge to decide where you
> want some change.  Then look in the Ultrachrome folder,
> copy Carl's psd file to a new name and look at it in Photoshop.
> There's just one Adjustment Curve Layer, click it, find the
> magenta curve.   Nudge it up in the area you think looks
> green on the step wedge.  Save the psd file and then also
> Save As a Raw file.  Name it UC-user1.quad  then drag it
> into CurveDropBox.   You're ready to go.  Print now with your
> UC-user-1 curve.  Try it and see, modify it as you see fit.
>
> It would be great if someone with a color densitometer could
> tweak these curves.  Any takers?

I would also appreciate some help tweaking the 2200 neutral curve.  I 
do not have a densitometer and as Roy indicated the draft curve was 
constructed by eye with a lot of trial and error tweaking and printing 
of step wedges.  Are there any soft proofing techniques available that 
could be used in the curve construction process?