Digital BW, The Print

As far as I am aware this can't be done.  Yes you can take a custom dot gain
curve and have PS convert that to an ICC profile but I don't think that is
what you want.  Hence Roy Harrington's efforts re QTR-Create-ICC which reads
Gretag Macbeth Measuretool data and creates a greyscale ICC profile.
Colorshopx has a utility which attempts to do the same thing but you can't
read actual data and you can only input a transfer curve.


> From: wwodets <odets@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 03:39:59 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Some help on curves conversion to ICC, please . . .
> 
> For printing on the 2400 I've put together a PS curve to match screen
> to print, essentially a luminance profile of the ABW mode.  This has
> allowed me very precise screen control by adding a layer to the file
> for viewing (which is then, of course, turned off for printing).  I'd
> like to be able able to convert the PS layer curve to an .ICC profile
> so that I can use it in the Soft Proof mode.  I know that the Color
> Management dialogue allows a custom ink gain curve, put this is not
> precise enough.  How can I take the curve (or its numbers) and make an
> ICC profile from it?  Many thanks.
> 
> Walt   
>