Digital BW, The Print

Or is there a transform taking place as soon as we click on Advanced B&W
Mode (ie not really Same as Source) in which case things would be done
twice?


> From: Steve Kale <stevekale@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 09:53:22 +0100
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Epson 2400 beta tester report
> 
> 
> An interesting report.  Well we already know how to do the soft-proofing for
> any given setting - Carl, give Bruce Fraser a call...
> 
> The question I have is tone compression/management.  This is effectively now
> a black box in the Epson driver and not open to profiling with conventional
> software - not good.  There is no connection/colour management of tonal
> compression from the workspace to the print space - change the workspace and
> you'll get a different result.  Much like Black Only printing.  This is a
> real shame.  It would have been nice if there was a baseline per paper/ink
> that had been profiled. At least then the CMM could be used to get you to a
> known baseline for tweaking in the driver.
> 
> Roy, perhaps it won't be long before we ask you to again brush off that
> greyscale profile writer of yours!  By measuring the output of the Epson
> driver in B&W mode for a particular setting at least then we could "profile"
> the luminance/reflectance axis.  Then we can use the CMM with perceptual
> intent to manage tonal compression at least.
>