Digital BW, The Print

Steve, Ernst, John-

Thanks for all the responses.  I have been using the random target, 
51 patches, strip read, the occasional glass of wine (but not two) 
and a white card overlaid with a piece of the same paper.

I have not been averaging multiple targets or reads, though I've done 
consecutive profiles and overlaid then and find them extremely 
close.  I imagine that this would have to be done by manually 
calculating the averages for each of the 51 steps and then entering 
them in the Measure Tool text file.  Is that correct, or is there 
something sleeker I'm not thinking of?

A sample of three is probably better than a sample of one, but 
*statistically* a sample of three (compared to thousands of prints 
done with the profile) is probably meaningless (small "N"). 

Thanks,
Walt  





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale 
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
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> > From: Ernst Dinkla <E.Dinkla@c...>
> > 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...
>