Digital BW, The Print

Hi Lou:

THANKS for this suggestion, I'll give that a shot, certainly worth a try!

Jack

At 12:17 PM 12/29/2005, you wrote:
>From: "Louis Dina" <lbdina@...>
>Subject: Re: LAB luminance as black evaluator?  Density values?
>
>Jack,
>
>You can use the campanding calculator on Bruce Lindbloom's site.
>http://www.brucelindbloom.com/
>
>If you spectro works with QuickRead, that will read out both in Lab and
>density values.  It used to be a free download at www.icctools.com, but
>the link doesn't seem to be working anymore.  I'm not sure if it is
>still available or not.
>
>I'm sure there are other utilities that provide both Lab and density
>values, but at least the Companding Calculator will work, even though
>it isn't as convenient as QuickRead.
>
>Lou
>
>
>--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Jack Winberg
><jack.winberg@v...> wrote:
> >
> > The ColorVision spectrocolorimeter I am beta testing reads out in LAB
> > values.  I would like to utilize this to evaluate the degree of
> > blackness of prints.  "L" valueThe scale is 0 to 100, 0 being black,
> > and 100 being white.
> >
> > Can anyone come up with a conversion to the density values I see
> > bandied about in this list?
> >
> > Thanks very much......................... Jack Winberg


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