Digital BW, The Print

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I don't have a RIP to use for profiling.  I've heard the 2200 is 
remarkably consistent, and I was hoping to just get some curves on the 
web to apply while soft-proofing, and maybe tweak them.

I ran across this last night in my research:  
http://members.rogers.com/mitsuye-kitamura/Profiling/Profiling.html 
which would help me generate my own curves by hand.  I'd also heard 
there was an Epson RIP of some sort that was about $250?  That I would 
be able to spring for in a month or two.

Not looking forward to the grueling process of profiling one bit though, 
but I suppose it still beats the overhead in building a wet darkroom.

Peter Nelson wrote:

|I didn't see anything in here about a profiler.  If you don't have
|one then I hope you have another car in the garage to sell.
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|DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "justinflorentine"
|<justin@b...> wrote:
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|>I'm an experienced analog printer who just made a big jump into the
|>digital world.  Recently sold a car, so the spending cash found
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|it's
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|>way to my local compusa :).
|>
|>Anyhoo, I'm a PC user who shoots exclusively on 35mm Nikons.  I
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|bought
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|>a Nikon Coolscan 4000 and an Epson 2200 for my digital darkroom.  
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|Like
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|>most others, IU use photoshop.  Now I'm trying to grok color
|>management, more specifically ICC (or is it ICM?  what's the
|>difference?) color profiles.  I ran through the adobe gamma wizard
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|in
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|>my Win2K control panel to make sure my monitor was accurate, and to
|>generate a profile.  I did this, but now I'm not sure at which
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|phase
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|>of my workflow to apply it.
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|>1) Scan on nikon cs 4000.  No gain adjustment, no auto-exposure,
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|14bit
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|>RGB scan.  Level adjustments to be done in PS.
|>
|>2) Do I immediately apply my monitor profile to the image?  I would
|>think that this would make my future changes relative to the
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|monitor
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|>profile.  Is this correct?
|>
|>3) Adjust levels, crop, and darkroom fun.
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|>4) Adjust DPI/image size, print to the 2200.  Now when I do this,
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|do I
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|>use my monitor profile as the source, or would that be
|>double-profiling?  If not, what do I use for the source profile?  
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|The
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|>target profile is the Epson 2200 that came with it, but I suspect I
|>should be using a paper/ink specific profile.  Is this correct?
|>
|>Is this a complete enough workflow?  I feel like I must be missing
|>some steps, but that could just be freshman uncertainty...
|>
|>Thanks again...
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