Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Roy Harrington"
<roy@h...> wrote:
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Roy, I think your approach using LAB is as sound as any other if not
more. I suspect many of the workflows used are based on a subjective
decision about what looks good, at least you are conforming to
something, and it also tends to look good.

> Tyler, since you've picked the dot gain 20% for your linearized system.
> I'm wondering how that compares with linear Lab.  For instance, on
> one step wedge I have:  0 step = 97 L, 50 step = 57 L, 100 step =17 L.
> So the 50 step is right in the middle.   What would your system give?

Give me a few days, I'm just changing inks around and relinearizing.
Since new ink is in, old linearizations won't be as relevant for this.

> The trouble with all this is that no matter what you have that's what
> your files are edited to so.   It's painful to switch even if you
think its
> the right thing to do.   I don't know how you can handle other
> peoples files.

I still think a color managed approach would help a great deal here.
It does work for color for the most part and I've used it for B&W. If
a file comes in tagged I can usually deal with it well, I've even
recieved RGB and CMYK files.
Tyler