Digital BW, The Print

Walt,
Any chance you are using an i1-pro to profile an LCD display?  If so, make
sure it’s set to LCD mode, not CRT in i1match.  Also, if you have the
i1-display2, you might be better off using that on an LCD.

Best regards,
John Moody

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
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Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 1:25 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Create ICC Soft Proofing question . . .

Tyler-
Thanks for the response.  Yes, I hadn't noticed that "ink black" is
automatically invoked with "paper color" but that is exactly the
issue and makes a lot more sense!  That all said, I'm familiar with
the look-away approach to soft proofing (I've used some Jon Cone
color setups pretty extensively with soft proofing), but on my setup
the print blacks, particularly on VFA, are *much* stronger than what
the soft proof depicts.  On the Cone color setup, the soft proof was
quite accurate and useful.  So the paper/ink selection improves the
acccuracy from grays at about 70% and lighter, but misrepresents the
actual print blacks.

On the other issue, I am going to profile a few papers with the ABW
Normal and Light settings.  I suspect that Epson designates
the "Darker" setting as the standard one because it simulates the
shadow compression of the typical 2.2 file profile and workspace.
With ICC, of course, this is moot and I know that the light and
normal settings are much more linear into the shadows than the darker
setting.  I'll compare the numbers after I do the profiles tomorrow.

Best,
Walt




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