Digital BW, The Print

Ok, some years back when the VM-S set hit the streets, I wondered aloud 
on this list about profiling it with a commercial profile package..

It created a stir, and I tried doing it with some then commercially 
available packages... Results were VERY disappointing and resulted in 
huge amounts of posterization.

Since then I've played with a bunch of products and had been having 
surprising success on color profiles with ProfilePrism of all things..  
I never even thought to try a "low-end product" like Profile Prism on 
the previously uncompleted task of properly profiling the VM-S set..

Well, I've been a tad bored lately and was running a bunch of other 
tests, creating actions, etc.,  So, I figured, "what the hey, why not 
give Profile Prism a shot at profiling the VM-S inkset?"

Amazingly, it created a profile that is both usable for printer 
profiling and  soft proofing (a necessary component to getting this 
right)..  The workflow is pretty straightforward, but it works.. Color 
me astonished. (I'm guessing that Profile Prism does more simple point 
to point mapping and less interpolation as far as: rendering intent, 
smoothing, etc. - meaning a profile for something like this would be 
more likely to be usable)

While some of the output still needs a tad bit of tweaking in the 
shadows (and that can be accomplished with a curve if necessary), this 
workflow should allow split toning at will with the VM-S and VM inksets, 
as well as perhaps the UltraTones...

If there's interest, I'll put together a complete workflow/explanation 
and send it to Martin Wesley to add to the group files..


 
Keith Krebs

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User Community (highly recommended by Vogon Poets and MegaDodo 
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