Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Todd Flashner <tflash@e...> 
wrote:
> Why are custom dot gain curves necessary for Piezo?
It only affects the way photoshop sends info to the monitor, it's a 
final fine tune. Once it's done all profiles should work on all 
profiled papers similarly. That's the idea anyway, someone who uses 
Piezo regularly should comment.
It's a good idea. My only problem with it is one would be editing 
files in a custom grayscale space that may wind up irrelevant one day.

snip...Thus, where does the
> custom dot gain fit in--

I think custom dot gain and gamma controls were put there because they 
were easy to put there, and smell suspiciously like "extra features". 
They should have been excluded. Most Piezo users are photographers 
looking for continuous tone reproduction, these controls quickly screw 
it up, and may only be useful for other printing circumstances like 
reproducing pen and ink, or whatever.
Tyler