Digital BW, The Print

* -----Original Message-----
* From: Mark Hahn [mailto:markhahn2000@yahoo.com] 
* Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 9:28 PM
* To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
* Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Getting everything calibrated and profiled
* 
* 
* I would agree here.  My simple profile using Adobe Gamma is better 
* for b&w than what a friend was able to do with his Monaco system 
* stuff... the Monaco profile is way better for color though.  Also, 
* when I used Adobe Gamma I put up a stepwedge and iterated until all 
* the Adobe stuff looked right and the stepwedge looked right.
* 
Mark,

I tried Monaco was not happy with the results. The ColorVision software and
hardware did a much better job of monitor calibration. Remember that monitor
calibration is the matching of the monitor to your working color space not
to the print. In a sense having a calibrated monitor means that you are
seeing the file the same way Photoshop "sees" it. The monitor to print
matching is done by profiling the printer to match the same color space or
by using a proofing curve to simulate a match on screen. At this point in
time a good proofing curve it the best we can do. The new Piezo software
that does use standard printer profiles would also give you very exact on
screen views but only if your monitor is properly calibrated.

Apparently none of the low or medium priced color profiling software
packages are up to creating usable printer profiles of the grayscale inks to
actually print with. Some of them will give you profiles that are good
enough to be used for proofing profiles though.

Martin Wesley
http://www.carolyn.cc/Guests/MartinWesley/pages/MW_01.html
http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html

 




* 
* --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" 
* <paul.roark@v...> wrote:
* > Martin,
* > 
* > I agree that to do color work a monitor spyder and appropriate
* software is
* > very important.  But then, that's one reason I like B&W so much.  I
* don't
* > have to worry about the color being "right."
* ...
* 
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