Digital BW, The Print

Bernie,

May I suggest that ³color management² and monitor calibration and profiling
could at least reduce the discrepancy between what you see on-screen and
what you obtain in a print even though you are working with grayscale and
not color.  I have jumped in here in part because I was just delivered
ColorVision¹s new Spyder2Pro colorimeter and software, and the resulting
calibration and profiling I am now obtaining is amazingly well-matched and
the screen gray is at a neutral balance I¹ve not seen before. And may I also
suggest that with an LCD flat panel, its grater brightness range compared to
a CRT, makes it that much more difficult to obtain screen matching in prints
as there is an inherent gamma discrepancy. CRT¹s are much closer in
brightness range and apparent gamma effect to a print density range.

Regards, David B. Brooks
Shutterbug Magazine
E-mail: fotografx@mindspring.com




On 10/15/04 4:17 AM, "Bernie Ess" <albatros-@...> wrote:

> 
> When I started b&w printing on an Epson, I thought one of the
> advantages over the darkroom was that once its well set up, there
> would be no trying and experimenting and that I would have 100%
> predictable results.
> 
> Now, a few hundreds or probably thousands of prints later I find that
> this is
> not exactly the case. On my 2100/UT7 workflow I find the following
> issues:
> 
> 1. My output from the file + Roark curves is roughly, but never
> exactly what I see on my monitor. When I look at the grayscale on my
> flat panel the 100% to 0%
> steps are quite well separated, but in the uncorrected print the deep
> shadows (around 95%
> black) are not well resolved, 95% comes out totally
> black: So I had to make a curve that boosts the deep shadows.
> 
> 2. I often find myself having to do several prints of the same photo,
> because the general "look" of the print is not like on the screen, see
> also my other message about the foliage and trees.
> 
> 3. The most mysterious thing is that my output seems to vary from time
> to time. Sometimes I find the prints too dark compared to the screen,
> sometimes they are slightly too light.
> 
> Finally its not that different from the darkroom, I would say
> gradually more predictable (maybe even by a large margin, but that is
> probably because my traditional darkroom skills are so poor).
> 
> So, do you have a 100% WYSIWYG workflow?
> 
> Thanks for your input,
> 
> Bernhard
> 
> 
> 
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