Digital BW, The Print

Greg wrote:
> --- 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. 

Asked Mike for Spectrometer input and got no answer.

Thought about that path too. But it is a long way.

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           Ernst Dinkla


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