Digital BW, The Print

Thanks for the info. Sounds like I'd better just buy it, get out of
demo mode, and get busy.
Tyler

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "dfaprinting"
<dfaprinting@y...> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Are you refering to the "rich gray" feature? I've worked with it a 
> few
> > times without the result I was after. Perahps there is a different
> > tool there that works better?
> > Tyler
> 
> There are two modes, one is rich black, the other I think is only 
> labelled as grayscale, and I get them both confused and so generally 
> make both to see which is which. The full CMYK grayscale yields a 
> profile with a default name containing the word "gray", the other 
> gives no default name and is the black only profile that I mentioned. 
> The full CMYK grayscale profile can be used as an output profile 
> within the Fiery, the BO profile is not recognised so must be applied 
> by converting the image to that space. Made a big improvement over 
> just sending a grayscale image to the printer. If you use Norman 
> Koren's grayscale test image the 21 steps look real good. The 255 to 
> 240 graduation that is also on that chart goes up to about 249 for me 
> when I convert to the BO space, otherwise I can only get to about 242 
> when sending the "raw" grayscale image to the RIP. The steps in the 
> 21 step chart all look good, and the graduation at the bottom is 
> smooth all the way up until the dither runs out on my 9500. Bet it 
> looks real good on the 76/9600 at 2880x1440.
> 
> I suppose you could do the same thing by adjusting the output sliders 
> in level control in Photoshop, but this takes the most trial and 
> error away from that process, and gives nice linear steps which may 
> not happen using the Photoshop adjustment way. 
> 
> Also found out my briefcase is misbehaving, so can't upload anything 
> at the moment. The manual is around 12MB and the windows version of 
> the software is around 16MB. I suggest just searching the Xrite 
> website for "colorshopx" to find the demo (both Mac and Win).