Digital BW, The Print

Interesting.  Sorry I did not know that.  They can't conform to spec.
Apologies.  I guess my exception turned out not to be an exception after
all.


> From: Tom Baker <tbaker1328@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:35:21 -0700 (PDT)
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] ICC v. Transfer Function in Epson driver
> 
> According to Colorbyte the B&W "profiles" are not "real" profiles.  They would
> not be recognized by any other application as an ICC profile.  Therefore, I
> theink applying ICC to them is a misnomer.
>  
> Their color profiles are recognized by any application that know about ICC
> profiles, but not the b&w.
>  
> Tom Baker
> 
> Steve Kale <stevekale@...> wrote:
> Of course it is.  They profile the response of the printer driven by the IP
> driver.  They only have relevance if you have that driver.  Same as a Gretag
> Macbeth profile of the Epson driver's response is only relevant to that
> Epson driver.  You can't profile the Imageprint driver and expect it to
> represent the performance of the Epson driver.
> 
> 
>> From: Tom Baker <tbaker1328@...>
> 
>> 
>> Why do you say IP's approach to b&w is ICC.  It's not.  You can not use IP's
>> b&w "profiles" anywhere except in IP.
>>  
>> Tom Baker