Digital BW, The Print

Pretty unlikely to make it work across all the various systems people
are using here. But one would think at least amongst those that are
hardware linearized a high degree of visual similarity would result if
there were indeed some standard.
I can do it now between different papers, and different ink tint
combinations, assuming dmax is in the same ballpark amongst them.
Also, if we were both profiled with good gray profiles, if I assigned
my profile to an image, then you converted it to yours and printed
there, a decent match could be expected.
Tyler

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter"
<spamme2001@m...> wrote:
> 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.