Digital BW, The Print

Todd,

Calibrate your monitor, print a step wedge using the VM curve and 
paper of interest. From that create a custom dot gain curve in colot 
settings and save those overall color settings with a name that will 
allow you to find it easily. When you plan to print using this 
curve/paper combination switch to those saved settings.

When in RGB you can use the custom curve for proof preview also.

I am definately no expert in all the color settings and viewing 
options of Photoshop but if the WYSIWYG work arround works for Piezo 
it should work for MIS VM too.

To get better than this you will need something like Profiler Pro and 
a Spectrocam. Even then, from what Tyler and Dan have reported, some 
tweaking is required. I would like to approach if from that direction 
myself but the cost in $ and time is too high for me right now.

Martin

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Todd Flashner <tflash@e...> 
wrote:
> on 10/14/01 12:23 AM, Martin Wesley wrote:
> 
> > See what you have been missing!
> 
> And people bitch about the tweaking we do for MIS VM? ;-)
> 
> What do you think is the best way to do a similar thing (custom dot 
gain)
> for RGB images with the MIS VM setup? My system prints good step 
wedges, but
> though my monitor is hardware calibrated, it's way contrastier and 
brighter
> than my prints. What is the best way to mitigate that while I'm quad
> printing, without throwing my monitors calibration out of whack on 
the
> whole?
> 
> Thanks 
> Todd