Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
> Yes what you say is correct.  As set up at the moment, a 255 pixel (or
> normalised pixel value of 1) goes to paper white 0.043 and 0 pixel
to 1.65.
> But note that the gamma of such a range is completely different from the
> workspace gamma.

The gamma, on final paper, is determined by workflow. And in fact, the
working space and results on paper can be made to match quite well,
but a short novel could be written on the many ways to do so.

>...Better to deliver the printer a tonal
> range it can handle (43-293)...
> Better to deliver the printer a tonal range it can handle (45-243).....
> and have it calibrated to the same gamma as our
> workspace. No?

No, that will result in even further compression. 243 will map to a
light gray instead of paper white, 45 will map to less than ink black,
lowering your potential final density range.

Tyler
www.custom-digital.com