Digital BW, The Print

Ditto. It would be great if we could restrict the specification 
of "intent" to the contents of the digital file itself and be free 
to print with consistency on any number of devices. With the unique 
strengths and weaknesses of different printers, however, I wonder if 
this would ever be possible.

Peter.


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley" 
<tyler@t...> wrote:
> 
> That's what kind of bugs me, we do it to taste instead of an 
> accepted standard. We can both be linear, but be printing 
> considerably lighter or darker than each other depending on our 
> eyes. Of course we are editing our files to suit, but one would 
> think there could be some widely accepted standard that once we
> are all linearized to, the same file would print similarly 
> across the board.