Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley" <tyler@t...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Roy Harrington"
> <roy@h...> wrote:
> snip...
> > It looks like StudioPrint allows you to linearize to various dot gains
> > giving different overall lightnesses.  I wonder what the color profiler
> > programs do with this.  It ought to be done the same if there's an
> > accepted standard.
> 
> Shouldn't matter, we're simply saying we're sending these particular
> numbers to the device, in both the chart and the reference, and the
> profiler shows us what the device does with them. 
> So if I linearize to a different dot gain out, and reprofile for that,
> the "preserve color numbers" should reflect that difference. Same as
> if you had profiled to a different device or output method, yours vrs
> mine, or SP 10% vrs SP 20%, etc..
> Maybe the point is that if the DG is changed, reprofiling is necessary
> as it's really now a different device.
> Hope that makes sense.
> Tyler

Sure.  You can make any of the situations work for you.
I was just thinking that if someone already had a file they had
worked on in a color managed environment, it would be nice if they
got very close when they tried to move over to one of our B&W
managed environments.

Roy