Digital BW, The Print

dfaprinting wrote:

>--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Roy Harrington" 
><roy@h...> wrote:
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>>--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "dfaprinting" 
>><dfaprinting@y...> wrote:
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>>>Is this a gray profile type or full color for softproofing the 
>>>toning? Hopefully as time goes on it won't have to use the 
>>>Measuretool file. Cool that it's a stand alone app. though.
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>>It's just a grayscale profile, no color.
>>MeasureTool seems like the simplest input format, but formats
>>from other reading programs are certainly a possibility.
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>>Roy
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>Are there other tools available? I tried Quickread (for windows), but 
>it only gave me a beta expired (or something like that) error. 
>ColorshopX will read in scanning mode, but it doesn't know anything 
>about the chart, so if you scan very slow, you get extra reads, and 
>if you scan too faster, you don't get all the patches. Too bad GMB 
>won't release a very basic reader that works in both scanning mode, 
>and in single read mode, just like Xrite's Toolcrib utility.
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Is Babelcolor an option ? Not expensive and with lots of nice features 
for the Eye-One, Mac and Windows. Not that I could use it, they do not 
support the SpectroCam as there isn't enough demand for the support. Of 
course if more SpectroCam users asked for that support ..........

www.Babelcolor.com


	



  *BabelColor^\ufffd ,
  color translation and analysis*

*Version 2.5
*for Mac and Windows (June 20, 2005)

*New features:*
Eye-One 
<http://www.gretagmacbeth.com/index/products/products_color-mgmt-spec.htm>^TM 
input and spectral tools (screen shots 
<http://www.babelcolor.com/main_level/screen_shots.htm#Spectral_tools>), 
including:
(Eye-One purchased separately. All the features of the previous versions 
are still available if you do not have an Eye-One)

    - spectral graphs (emission, ambient, reflectance),
    - density readings and functions (print contrast, trap, etc.),
    - illumination evaluation (ISO 3664),
    - monitor and ambient Color Temperature (CCT),
    - Color Rendering Index (CRI),
    - daylight simulator Quality Grade (CIE S 012),
    - Metamerism Index (MI),
    - Color Inconstancy Index (CII, CIECAT02),
    - RAL conversion,
    and more!



I have used the SpectroCam at patch reading for the linearisation of QTR 
as the Avantes software has that feature integrated. Usually it isn't 
that difficult to get strip reading data correct for most software as 
the leaders in the meaurement tables can be exchanged in a text edotor 
but so far it didn't take much time to get the QTR linerisation done. 
With the 729 or more patches of color profilers it is a different story. 
For that I use a converted HPGL plotter to drive the SpectroCam and the 
paper.

Ernst