Digital BW, The Print

David, your statement below? isn't this  exactly what Ergosofts Studio print 
and Eyeone Photospectrometer do.
Priceless for consistancy!
Tyler, Am I mis reading david's statement?
Steve M.
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In a message dated 10/15/2004 7:31:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
fotografx@... writes:

> Ideally it is technically and theoretically possible to fully utilize color
> management and profiles to control B&W printing with black inks. What is
> missing for users are two software components. The first is a way to drive
> the printer to reproduce a standard grayscale image that would output a
> print with a set of recordings resulting from that graysscale reflecting the
> ink application performance for each printer ink channel.  Then the second
> step would be to “read” the densities from the test chart print. This can 
> be
> accomplished with either a flatbed scanner which has the support to output
> raw data, or with a photospectrometer. The key piece of need software would
> allow inputting the density data read from the chart to be used to write a
> profile applying preset algorithms to match ideal aim-points to control the
> ink application for each ink color channel.
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