Digital BW, The Print

> From: Tyler Boley [mailto:tyler@...]
>
> This is a slight add-on to the excellent work Carl and Roy did working
> out how to make Match work with custom charts, and providing files etc..

I must have missed that thread. Can you point me to it?

> This also brings into focus the issue of monitor profiling. I've used
> three different apps, all with hardware, two even sharing the same
> hardware, and they all profile the monitor a bit differently. I guess
> it's naive to think that here, again, there is some standard to
> calibrate to, very frustrating.

Monitors are a lot more well-behaved than printers. If you're seeing
significant differences, my guess would be that the black points aren't the
same. As far as I can see, Eye-One Match doesn't let you set the black point
at all, and I don't know what it forces it to be. OptiCal at least lets you
set the black point, and I think there's some virtue in not setting it as
low as a blank screen, to better match the density range of a print.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...