Digital BW, The Print

Paul,

I have read your article, "Profiling the monitor to match the 
prints," and found it extremely easy to understand, and easy to 
apply to my own workflow. I use it all the time and it just makes 
good simple, sense, while helping me create prints which exactly* 
match what I see on my profiled monitor. Since the root issues here 
are sometimes quite technical in nature, discussions by the most 
knowledgeable among us often transgress into highly elevated techno-
babble, leaving many of us folks who just want to print, dismayed 
and frustrated. I really do appreciate simple solutions that I can 
understand and apply with ease. 

*exactly, of course, is a relatively subjective term

Thanks!

Jeff
http://www.pbase.com/k2kv



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" 
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:
> 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