Digital BW, The Print

Well said.


> From: Tyler Boley <tyler@...>

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> 
> First of all, before I go off on another tangent, it's important to
> acknowledge the work of Roy and Carl to implement these techniques and
> share them. I remember some email conversations between all of us but
> don't recall whether it was Roy or Carl who first discovered how to
> hack custom charts into EyeOne Photo, it was just a naming convention
> and not something more complicated. I hope Gretag never "fixes" this...
> I also want to make clear that I'm not implying their work was not a
> creative breakthrough, they may well have implemented it with no
> knowledge of previous work by others, it becomes obscure. Certainly
> Roy's single channel output profiles are new.
> 
> The tangent- This stuff is not new. Many of us have been soft proofing
> for all kinds of odd inksets and workflows for some time. Dan
> Culbertson refers to it in another context in a pdf somewhere on this
> site dated 2001. I profiled and used soft proofing methods to help
> generate curves for a variable tone MIS inkset for Martin, also
> somewhere on this site, back in 2002. I also used these methods for my
> own workflow for quad work in CMYK with a RIP. Back then we used
> Profiler Pro because it would not choke on such unexpected "colors".
> 
> One problem in this fast paced digital world is that people come and
> go, new products are quickly introduced, and the knowledge base seems
> to come and go as well. A breakthrough occurs, and then disappears,
> then you have new people coming in with no access to it. How many
> times to we see the "what is QTR?" post. Thankfully it is alive and well.
> 
> The concept of softproofing any of these workflows, virtually any of
> these ink sets, has been around a long time. I still stress learning
> color management, no matter how you wind up using it. The above
> methods become very obvious to someone with strong working CM knowledge.
> These ongoing problems persist unnecessarily, in my opinion one reason
> is because the reluctance to learn color management also persists.
> I know it's a drag, but the zone system was too until it became second
> nature.
> Tyler, ranting...