Digital BW, The Print

On 3/25/05 4:19 AM, "Steve Kale" sent the following verbage:

> 
> The bit I am puzzled about is that the difference between the Epson driver
> print and the QTR print - both without curves.  Because they each are going
> to matte paper each require quite a lot of dynamic range compression. The
> perceptual rendering workflow of both should take care of that in equal
> measure - you use perceptual rendering and black point compensation to go
> from your Adobe RGB workspace to the Epson Matte paper profile and the same
> for QTR to go from Adobe RGB to the QTR Matte Paper profile.  Yet you say
> there is a massive difference between the two prints.  Something doesn't
> make sense there.  Hence I haven't gotten to the point of saying try a
> contrast curve for the QTR print - you would need one for the Epson print as
> well.

The same file going thru the two different workflows do indeed require
different manipulations to print correctly. Here they sure do.

Carolyn