Digital BW, The Print

Yes. Also, if you take a look at the patent literature pertaining to
various densitometric/spectro instruments and methods, it's quickly
evident that there is a lot of interpolating going on under the hat in
the operation there as well. So, as Ernst mentioned, more measurement
points may or may not gain you much. In fact some of the on the fly
solutions for printers such as the color copier/lasers rely on only 4
or 5 real time measurements for ongoing control. There it's the
requirement for speed whereas your point is (oops I guess I excised
that.Sorry) one of convenience over the curve methods.
There is no reason that good scanners can't work as well so long as
they can be calibrated properly. Readings will be relative to method
just as they are with densi/spectros which don't match either.

Regards
Duane




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
> 

> The problem with this ICC profile stuff is that the parameters (ie
profile
> tags) are very well outlined in the ICC specification but just how they
> interoperate is not.  --------------------------------  Hence the
> desire to be able to profile the printer and use CM.  But what you
quickly
> realise is that there is no right way or wrong way to do a lot of
stuff -
> perceptual rendering for example has no defined methodology; it is
entirely
> up to the profile creator.
> 
> Steve