Digital BW, The Print

File profile/gamma would affect things, yes.  But not the gamma the
_display_ was set at when profiled.


> From: wwodets <odets@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:21:44 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Screen Gamma, was [Digital BW] Re: Problems printing with R2400
> 
> Steve-  
> 
> I believe that with color management turned off in PS (and no ICC
> Soft Proof profile) screen gamma may affect correspondence between
> screen and print.  The ABW driver has no way of knowing what you are
> viewing the file "at" in PS because PS is not providing information
> to the ABW driver without CM turned on (one way or the other).  If
> the file itself has an embedded  profile of 2.2 (which is what I
> think the ABW driver is expecting for "darker") then this might not
> make a difference and PS would also make it look "right" on the
> screen.  If on the other hand the file had an embedded profile of,
> let's say, Gray Gamma 1.8 or Dot Gain 20%, PS would make that file
> look right on the screen, but the ABW would have no idea.
> 
> Incidentally, I am finding the use of the QTR Create ICC profiles in
> Soft Proof quite useful in predicting the print.
> 
> Walt
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
> <stevekale@b...> wrote:
>> The gamma at which you calibrated your screen is irrelevant as PS's
> colour
>> management colour manages the file-to-display rendition.
>> 
>> (Also unless by chance your display's black point equals that of the
>> ink/paper combination you are using then it is simply not possible
> that they
>> match well without using a proof that profiles the printer
> greyscale.)