Digital BW, The Print

Tom,

Hmm, I must be missing the luck part! ;>) Anyway, tonight I played around
with a Custom Dot Gain curve per the instructions posted in the Files
section of the ImagePrint group. I believe Mitch Alland wrote this document.
Thank you, Mitch. Being an alumni of the old Piezography school of B&W
digital printing, I am fairly comfortable with Gains of the Dot, etc. Only
took a couple of prints and now my printed image looks, to my eye (and my
wife's) exactly like what I see in PS. I'm a happy camper. Will let the
print dry overnight and check it again tomorrow just to make sure it doesn't
"dry down" too bad.

Now, my last issue is 16-bit grayscale. Doesn't seem to work for me, but,
again, others report no problems with 16-bit files...naturally! :>(

Alan Huntley

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Baker" <tbaker1328@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [Digital BW] 1280 vs. 2200 question


> Alan  -
>
> I'm on Win.  I use Gray Gamma 2.2 or, the gray profile that comes from my
Nikon 8000 for everything.  I can't really tell the difference in the two.
But, I'm consistent in my use of ICC profiles.  Seems to work just fine.
And I don't use anything to calibrate my moitor except the PS gamma tool and
my eye.  I think there's some luck involved here somewhere, too.