Digital BW, The Print

Steve-

If by profiling you mean ICC profiling, this shouldn't affect the 
color neutrality of the prints.  Profiling (or curves) as with a RIP 
will certainly affect neutrality, but you wouldn't use a RIP with the 
ABW (which is essentially a RIP).  I have used the VFA setting in the 
ABW driver with VFA.

Walt

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Bye" 
<steve_bye@c...> wrote:
>
> Do you need to profile VFA for K3 inks to get neutral prints? What 
paper
> setting do you use?
> 
> Steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of 
wwodets
> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 7:54 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: ABW Settings for VFA and other preferred 
papers.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I use the VFA with all ABW settings neutral.  On the USFA, I have 
> been using an h-12 v-16 and all other settings neutral.  
The "circle 
> thing" on the USFA gives more or less the tonality of the VFA but 
> somewhat cooler and might be too cool for some people.  When a 
single 
> print or a set of similar prints are viewed (without side by side 
> comparisons) they tend to set their own whitepoint and 
look "right."  
> Lighting, which is highly variable in home, gallery and museum, 
also 
> dramatically changes the whitepoint but in a given situation we 
> adjust to that too.  So, unlike Clayton, I don't really pursue 
> a "certain look."  I prefer something transparent to the eye and in 
> wet printing never used toners, etc.
> 
> Walt
> 
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "rgoldman2" 
> <rgoldman@n...> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Very interesting discussion about these art papers.  What your 
your 
> preferred ABW settings 
> > for VFA (v, h, sh, and hi)?
> > 
> > In general, since the ABW system seems to be very sensitive to 
> small increments and since 
> > we are uncertain i guess about the logic that underlies the 
chooser 
> (what are we calling the  
> > circle thing?), it would be helpful to those of us considering a 
> new paper to have 
> > suggestions from those of you who are using it.
> > 
> > Thanks
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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