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Re: UT-FSN on 1160 and PhotoRag

2004-07-20 by John Vitollo

"Stefan Kirsch" <skirsch@n...> wrote:

> With the grayscale profile UT-GrayScale-EEM.acv   I am getting reasonable
> results. There is room for improvement, but this is not a surprise, since
> the curve is a generic one.  Using the photo rag curve
> 1160-UT-FS-RGB-PhotoRag and converting the picture (step wedge) into RGB
> before printing makes things much worse. There is no rise from light to dark
> grays. It goes up and down. I think I miss something obvious. 

Before applying the curve make sure the image is in RGB. Don't convert to RGB after curve 
is applied...the printed image will look crappy.


In Photoshop's "Print with Preview":

Source Space is Adobe 98

Print Space: Profile: Same as Source

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