Digital BW, The Print

Steve M.,

Not according to the documentation that is published in the Ergosoft web
site.  They state specifically that it is not ICC compliant. As far as I can
establish all of the available, commercial RIPS for black and white printing
are intentionally proprietary, except of course for the Linux GIMP based
solution. From my perspective it is a technical solution dictated by a
business model. That model essentially assumes a delimited market potential,
in part reflected by the printers supported, and which offers limited user
control or independence. It¹s the Polaroid philosophy now perpetuated as
much as they can by Epson.

I am not being critical in terms of what it does, or for that matter what
several other competitors also do. What I am suggesting is that it does not
parallel for instance what color management companies do like Monaco,
Gretag-Macbeth or ColorVision, which is base their solutions on a standard
which interfaces seamlessly with  OS based CMS¹s¹ supporting full user
independence after purchasing the software/hardware.

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




On 10/15/04 8:11 PM, "sdmey4@..." <sdmey4@...> wrote:

> 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.
> Snip>
> In a message dated 10/15/2004 7:31:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> fotografx@mindspring.com 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 ³read² 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.
>> > Snip>
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