Digital BW, The Print

Steve, the destination profile doesn't need to know the source gamut,
nor can it as you say. The conversion engine takes care of that,
utilizing the info from both source and destination profile.
Tyler

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "steve_bye"
<steve_bye@c...> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tyler Boley" <tyler@t...>
> 
> >Perceptual rendering is characterized by the
> >nature of the two spaces involved, regardless of image content.
> >For example, perceptual conversion from a large color to small color
> >space will shrink gamut based on the spaces, even if there are no
> >(destination) out of gamut colors in the file.
> >
> >Tyler
> 
> One thing has always seemed strange tome. The printer profile's
perceptual
> rendering lookup table is created when the printer ICC profile is
created,
> but there is no knowledge at that time of what the image's source color
> space will be. It seems like the proportional gamut compression that
occurs
> with perceptual rendering intent is not only independent of the image
> content, it's independent of the size of the source color space. It's
> determined before the source color space is known.
> 
> Steve
> 
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