Digital BW, The Print

> From: Ernst Dinkla <E.Dinkla@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:20:18 +0200
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] i1 Target Scanning technique . . .
> 
> Steve Kale wrote:
>>  The ICC spec
>> calls for black backing not white.
> 
> Which is a sensible thing when you have text or images printed
> at the other side of the paper too but not for photography
> etc. Better use two or three extra sheets of the same paper
> you printed on underneath the target. That's what the majority
> of the color gurus do.

There's a lot of debate about this.  The spec calls for black backing
regardless but this is one of those things that will probably change...