Digital BW, The Print

thanks, I should just bite the bullet and buy colorshop, been dinking
around with their demos in various versions for way too long.
Know of anything that will easily build plots like this-
http://photoshopnews.com/stories/images/BW-Chronicles/ultrasmooth-linearity.png
from data files? Or do i need to just build them by hand?
Tyler

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "dfaprinting"
<dfaprinting@y...> wrote:
> Depending on the tool you are using to measure, there might be 
> something better. Ernst made a post several weeks ago about Xrite's 
> Colorport which allows making targets for several different 
> measurement tools, and then measuring those printed targets. It's 
> very much like MeasureTool, but it's FREE. A quick search of the 
> archives, or the Xrite site would pull up the download link. And yes 
> I do recall that it is PC and Mac friendly. It might be over kill for 
> measuring a 21 step target, but it does allow for a few things like 
> changing the observer color temp and angle. It will export to CSV and 
> TAB and SPACE delimited text files with Lab, XYZ, spectral, and maybe 
> one other I can't remember (density maybe?). It will also save a 
> CGATS standard type measurement file (there's an example in one of my 
> posts). It's worth the download if you device is supported.
> 
> Also, again depending on the measurement tool, you can get the same 
> data from Xrite's ColorshopX, which does some spectral (per 
> measurement)graphing, as well as 2D and 3D graphing of measured 
> samples (Lab), and a bunch of other things including editing ICC 
> profiles, and well more than I'll go into now. 14 day demo, $99 price 
> directly from Xrite. It's been worth my $99 so far, but it might be 
> more worthwhile to full color users, not that some of the tools 
> aren't useful for B/W.
> 
> If you want I can give you a list of some of the common features I 
> find useful, and maybe a few screen captures from Colorshop, I would 
> say read the manual, and while it will give you a rough idea about 
> the tools, it is not what I would call in-depth.