Digital BW, The Print

Turning colour management off doesn't turn off a default workspace.  It is
whatever you left it at or at its "factory original" default. You are just
turning off the document management policies.  Sorry I don't have Elements
but in PS note that you can turn Colour Management Off but the display of an
untagged document still reflects whatever you have in your settings (in the
case of a greyscale image like a step wedge, on your "gray" space).  Change
them and see the look of the untagged document change.  Of this I am not
completely sure, but I think the settings under "conversion options" dictate
the intent used for the monitor portrayal.  This I would need to check.


> From: Paul Roark <paul.roark@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:02:07 -0800
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Re: Comparison: K3 versus Ultrachrome inks on
> Semi-Matte + ImagePri
> 
> Steve,
> 
>> ...  I don't think you can ever look at a step wedge on
>> your display without colour management.
>> Even with "colour management off"
>> in PS a step wedge is still colour managed to the display.
> 
> Yes, that is what I've heard also -- the monitor is always "color managed."
> 
> But, where is it coming from or set?
> 
>> Open a
>> non-tagged step wedge and choose not to colour manage it.
>> The image on your display still reflects your workspace.
> 
> Where is that workspace set if not in Photoshop's "color settings?"
> 
> When I go to print an Untagged grayscale in Elements with "No Color
> Management" checked, the Source space is "Untagged Gray."  It displays and
> prints just like GG 2.2.

"It displays"  Yes because that's your workspace - I assume.  The document
is untagged but to display it PS picks up the workspace setting and uses
that.  

"and prints" I think this is sending the printer raw numbers.  You get the
response of the printer to the 8 bit equivalent of each K%.  At least this
is the case for PS 7/CS/CS2.  This is how one measures the response of the
printer for given stimulus - sender the printer a given set of known numbers
and measure the response.  You don't want colour management to alter the
numbers sent to the printer.  Unless your printer is very well-calibrated to
GG2.2 you would not expect it to "print just like GG 2.2".  How are you
printing it?  (driver etc)