Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale <stevekale@b...> 
wrote:
>...For at least the
> last three years this is where the B&W community largely stopped (with a few
> notable ICC colour managed approaches).  What's more, those that maintained
> a policy of linearising L* provided no attempt to rationalise the tonal
> mapping from even just one workspace to that of the printer.  I am glad we
> now have available to us an affordable solution systematically and sensibly
> managing differences in tonal range.  We are finally making use of what's
> been known to the colour community for quite some time.
>
This does little to aknowledge the accomplishments of so many that have contributed to 
the current state of the art. I became aware of much of this in 1998, and many were 
probably involved way before. Contributors as diverse as Dan Culbertson, Jon Cone, our 
own Ernst, up to Carl and Roy have been implementing color management, and/or using 
color management tools to move forward digital monochromatic printing. Many others 
that fail to imediately come to mind. I myself made my own CMYK profile for a quad ink 
set, that partitioned, and previewed, back in 2000 I believe, of course because of the help 
of many of those people.
This stuff isn't new.

In the course of this thread though, I still don't have a good idea of what you are trying to 
do. All this stuff works, we can work up a file on the computer, and print it getting 
predictable result on paper. I'm not sure how much more we can ask for in the workflow 
area. What is not working for you?
T