Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john dean" 
<deanwork2003@y...> wrote:
> 
> Now you got me thinking... Roy Harrington or some software guru 
needs
> to market his own photospectrometer and open the world up to true
> democracy! It's only a matter of time before someone does that. (
> don't tell Epson, they'll do it).
> 


Little CMS could/has be/been modified to work with measurements taken 
from a spectro. SDK kits can be had for free from GMB and Xrite. 
There are also several starter applications with source code on the 
ICC.org website, so there really isn't anything stopping anyone from 
writing their own software. I still think that Mike Cheney should 
make Profile Prism do two things. #1 is use measurements from a 
spectro instead of a scanner (and keep the price under $300). #2 add 
CMYK support to both Profile Prism and Qimage.

You could take the long way around and make Profile Prism work with a 
spectro now by measureing to a text file, then convert the 
measurements to L*a*b* data (or use Lab directly from the spectro), 
then make an image that has those same values in the proper 
arrangement. Cut and paste an image of an IT8 reference file (Vuescan 
can make this for you), then run the combined image through Profile 
Prism. It's a long way around, but for the ultra cheap, it would work 
(in theory). You could use Colorport to build the target and measure 
it.