Digital BW, The Print

I just wanted to come back to this for a second.  I just printed the same i=
mage I was 
playing around with when I noticed the "QTR printing lighter" issue - this =
time 
converting the image to RGB and simply using the Epson driver with the prof=
ile I had 
made for my colour printing.  The detail/density (especially the darkest ar=
eas of the 
image) is pretty much bang on what I see on screen (but of course has all t=
he other 
issues asociated with using the Epson driver) - as is the colour match when=
 
comparing soft proofed colour images to their prints.  Sounds like I should=
 delve into 
creating curves specifically for my printer.  Is this difficult?

Also a question for Carl:  if you use 1440x720HQ for B&W and QTR, what dpi =
are you 
using for colour?  Should I not use 2880 at all? 

Cheers

Steve




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale <stevekale@=
b...> 
wrote:
> I think the only difference we have is that when I calibrated my monitor =
I
> used D65 as my whitepoint.  I have an Apple Cinema HD Display 23².
> 
> 
> From: Carl Schofield <scho@m...>
> Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:17:53 -0500
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] QTR printing lighter than on screen...
> 
> 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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