Digital BW, The Print

>>Cone is doing it now, no doubt much better than we did.<<

Tyler,

ICQ is not ICC compliant. As I mentioned in another post on this issue the
RIP¹s and plugin solutions that are available are all proprietary, excepting
of course the Linux based GIMP RIP.

What I was suggesting is a system truly parallel to ICC based color
management tools which will support calibration/characterization that will
generate ICC compliant profiles which require no special proprietary PS
plugins, special drivers or RIP¹s.  What I am envisioning is an entirely
independent user facilitated adjunct to the present color management
standard that will interface seamlessly, and does not tie the user to any
particular brand of inkset or printer model.

I think this will be essential for full acceptance by the prosumer
marketplace. What the current situation in B&W printing solution reminds me
of was when Agfa released FotoTune 1.0 some 15 years ago. It only worked
with a full complement of Agfa hardware and software.

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




On 10/15/04 8:04 PM, "Tyler Boley" <tyler@...> wrote:

> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "David B. Brooks"
> <fotografx@m...> wrote:
>> > Steve,
> snip...
>> > Ideally it is technically and theoretically possible to fully
> utilize color
>> > management and profiles to control B&W printing with black inks.
> 
> This has been long known. I've made hacked profiles that not only
> would soft proof but partition, as did Dan Culbertson way back when.
> I'm sure there were and are others less vocal. Cone is doing it now,
> no doubt much better than we did.
> 
>> > 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.
> 
> Yes, but that can also be built into the profile if the driver/RIP has
> no built in way of accomplishing it.
> 
> snip...
> 
>> > Obviously a user B&W calibration and profiling capability will require a
>> > significant investment in R&D, as well as programming and marketing
> to bring
>> > these utilities to market.
> 
> I'm sure Jon Cone would agree wholeheartedly <G>.
> 
>> > That will happen when the potential market is
>> > adequately recognized in size potential by those in the industry who
> have
>> > the capability to take the risks to undertake this challenge....
> 
> Well, see the above.
> Tyler
> 
> 
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