Digital BW, The Print

Do you have the same problem with a color print?  If so, it sounds like a
monitor calibration problem.
By chance do you have an LCD monitor?  Some pucks just won’t work on them;
the i1-display-2 does, I’m personally unconvinced of the i1-pro results but
others think it’s OK.  If LCD, do you have a CRT that you can pull out and
temporarily try?

Best regards,
John Moody

-----Original Message-----
From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of wwodets
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 11:58 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] QTR and Create ICC . . .

I have spent two days with i1 generating and trying various ICC
profiles created with the QTR Create-ICC.  I've used both the 21 and
51 step wedges, and tried the profiles with both Epson 2400
ABW "darker" and "light" settings.

What is very impressive is that (using PS color mgmt. with the
profiles) no matter what the ABW settings the prints are virtually
identical (used with the correct profile for the ABW setting).  The
profiles and PS color management are clearly compensating for printer
and Epson driver "irregularities."

What is not impressive is that I cannot get anyhing close to a sceen
match for the prints.  With a monitor calibrated to 5K and 2.2 I have
been unable to find a workspace profile that even remotely previews
the print accurately, including the use of the i1/QTR generated
profiles for "soft proofing."  All the screen views are much lighter
than the print, and contrastier than the print, and the tonal
distribution is different.  I can produce a hugely more accurate
screen view of the print with a PS curve for viewing.

I am aware from Steve Kale's previous posts of the BPC issue with
Create-ICC, but the discrepancy I am experiencing seems to go way
beyond this.  I can't see what I'm not understanding here.  Any
thoughts about this?

Thanks,
Walt





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