Digital BW, The Print

Thanks for your reply, Dennis, but, no, that's not it. All those 
references relate to color profiling, which does not necessarily have 
the information I'm looking for - the RGB properties of neutral or 
near-neutral gray tones. The simplest thing that would satisfy me is 
an RGB-analyzed opaque (near-) neutral gray B&W stepscale, not a 
density-calibrated brownscale (Kodak and Stouffer - I have those and 
was deeply disappointed) or a full-on profiling package.

I think I finally found an up-scale version of what I need: the 
Munsell Neutral Value Scale, at $55+ rather more than I hoped to pay 
and requiring conversion of Munsell color values to RGB, but at least 
it may end this fruitless search and get me back to working on my B&W 
printing with some confidence that I've gotten rid of the worst color 
casts (which I can't see, but others can). You can't imagine how 
annoying it is when someone says of your otherwise beautiful 
B&Ws, "but that's kind of greenish, you know"; or pinkish or whatever.

Frank

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Dennis W. 
Manasco" <dmanasco@i...> wrote:
> At 5:05 pm +0000 3/5/04, njfranknj wrote:
> 
> >Does anyone have a spectrophotometrically or colorimetrically 
> >analyzed step scale that they would be willing to send or sell me? 
> >It should be near neutral, not heavily toned, but exact R=G=B 
isn't 
> >necessary.
> 
> 
> Could this be what you are looking for?
> 
> <http://www.hutchcolor.com/HCT_overview.htm>
> 
> or, for reflective, maybe the calibrated Kodak IT-8 on this page?
> 
> <http://www.chromix.com/ColorGear/Shop/ProductList.cxsa?
refcode=cmptarget>
> 
> 
> -=-Dennis