Digital BW, The Print

You should be colour calibrated anyway - it is the only way to have a
colour-managed workflow. But since B&W is largely at the moment a Same As
Source workflow rather than a colour managed one the only real way to get
output that matches the what you see on screen with B&W is to use a
soft-proofing workflow such as the one developed by Carl.  Of course for
this to work you need to be colour calibrated but one without the other is
not enough.


> From: "David B. Brooks" <fotografx@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:49:44 -0700
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Cc: <albatros-@gmx.net>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] How reliable/ precise is your b&w print workflow?
> 
> 
> 
> 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@...
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