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Re: Can a Color densitometer be used for B&W?

2004-09-29 by igorw2001

Koloshor, thanks for taking the trouble.

In the meanwhile, I asked X-rite about the mysterious "V" or "Visual" 
value that is shown as a read out on the 408 color densitometer (as 
said, you can toggle between Y, M, C and "V"). They wrote me: "Visual 
is the neutral reporting of Status T,E,G densitometry. It is not a 
pure average of the 3 colors but a weighting of the results based on 
ANSI/ISO specifications".
Difficult, but I guess it means I can use "V" for measuring 
greyscales.

I g o r

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