Digital BW, The Print

From Roy's post announcing the new version that I mentioned in an earlier
post (formatting distorted in post):

Supports a more general data input file. Anything
columnar,
looks for column headings of:

GRAY
L, LAB, LAB_L, A, LAB_A, B, LAB_B
D, DENSITY, V, VISUAL



> From: wwodets <odets@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 04:26:41 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] ICC v. Transfer Function in Epson driver
> 
> Paul,
> 
> The data section of the test file is in nine colums as follows:  Data
> number (1-51 in my case, 1-21 in yours); Sample name (A1, A2, A3, B1,
> B2, B3, C1, etc.); percentage of gray (e.g. 80.00); XYZ_X (e.g.
> 4.65); XYZ_Y (e.g. 4.77); XYZ_Z (e.g. 3.54); LAB_L (26.08); LAB_A
> (e.g. 0.58); LAB_B (e.g. 2.52).
> 
> Roy or Steve would know better, but I doubt Create ICC is reading the
> first column and probably not the second.  As Steve also suggested,
> the LAB_A and LAB_B columns could also be filled with zeros if you do
> not want to soft proof the actual paper color.  As the column
> headings are misalighed in my text file, I don't think Create ICC is
> looking for these headings, but rather columnar data that makes
> sense, left to right.  So, don't worry about the headings.  I suspect
> that columns 3-9 (or maybe 4-9) are the ones to have "in form."
> 
> I have found that the profiles from ICC create in a PS workflow are
> incredibly useful and I would encourage you to at least take a
> serious look at this.  I have finally found a reliable, consistent
> workflow to print through the Epson ABW driver.  This should be the
> same for any other form of output, driver, etc.
> 
> Best,
> Walt