Digital BW, The Print

steve
i had similar problems, i took carl's advice way back
switched from the 1.8 working space to the 2.2 grey
working space and it has improved things.
right on 
john e

--- Carl Schofield <scho@...> wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> Don't know if this helps, but my monitor (iMac LCD)
> is calibrated with  
> the eye-one to a target gamma of 2.2 and native
> white point.   My gray  
> working space in Photoshop is G 2.2 and prints match
>  fairly well to my  
> monitor, viewing prints under an Ott Lite.  As Roy
> suggested you could  
> probably get an even better match by soft proofing.
> 
> Carl
> On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 03:32  PM, Steve
> Kale wrote:
> 
> > I recently calibrated my monitor and Epson 2100
> with Gretag Macbeth's  
> > Eye-One
> > Photo system.  When I use QTR with Carl's curves
> my prints are about  
> > 1/2 a stop or so
> > lighter than on screen.  Is this just the
> difference in printer  
> > production tolerances (ie I
> > should really construct my own QTR curves for my
> own printer as I have  
> > done for
> > colour work) or something else?  I am assuming
> that in a well  
> > calibrated
> > environment I should be getting exactly what I see
> on screen.  Is the  
> > QTR/B&W world
> > the same as colour in this regard?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Steve
> >
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