Digital BW, The Print

Steve,


> ... 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.

That suggests that the Spyder2Pro that I use with my Win XP and crt is
giving a different view than what you are doing.

It is my impression that Adobe RGB (1998) color files should display
essentially the same on modern, "calibrated" systems.  Is this so?  If so,
why are our "calibrated" systems showing different views?

> 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.

I undersand that we can modify the view.  What I'm  questioning is whether
it makes more sense to match the print to a standardized view.  So, the
first question might be whether there is a standardized view that is
relatively well accepted by the mainstream industry -- meaning large color
market.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com 

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> 
> > From: Paul Roark <paul.roark@verizon.net>
> > 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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