Digital BW, The Print

A very quick answer.  I profile my Apple Cinema HD Display with an EyeOne
Display.  I can clearly see a difference between 90, 95 and 100.  For me, my
90% is L=10 and my 95% is L=5 etc and there is good separation.  So  a good
well profiled monitor can display what you would like to see.

The next question then is how to get a print to "match the screen" or much
more likely get a decent soft-proof that is consistent with
(methodology-wise) and matches the print.  In this regard, I have found no
substitute for Roy's path of creating an ICC profile which depicts the
characteristics of the print space, using this to soft proof, and then
converting to this print space (on the fly or prior to) at the time of
printing.  As to the details of how Roy created his Matte/Photo Paper
greyscale ICC profiles, you'll have to check with him but the use of
perceptual rendering to map 256 to paper white and 0 to ink black, and all
points in between, makes enormous sense.  This was my biggest issue with the
way these RIPs worked. Previously the points in between were a straight line
and the resultant gamma bore no resemblance to the workspace.


> From: Paul Roark <paul.roark@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 11:15:17 -0700
> To: DigitalB&WPrint <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Matching Monitor and Print
> 
> 
> I'm trying to re-think this issue.  Some feedback would be most appreciated.
> 
> In my experience, monitors typically compress the deep shadow values of an
> image.  That is, the typical monitor, profiled either manually with Adobe
> Gamma or more accurately with, for example, Spyder2Pro, will show almost no
> difference between 100% black and 90% black.  The monitor and print may also
> show the midtones with different brightness and contrast characteristics.
> 
> If the monitor and print look different, there would seem to be two basic
> approaches that could get them to match better:
> 
> First, the view on the monitor can be altered to match the print.
> 
> Second, the image file can be printed so that the print matches the
> monitor's view.
> 
> Would it be easier to accept what the Spyder2Pro does and simply match the
> print to that?  
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
> 
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