Digital BW, The Print

> ColorBase has little or no effect on a printer already well 
centered its 
> range. So whether a given printer gets better results with it 
invoked would tend 
> to vary from printer to printer. Any extra step has the potential 
to make 
> results less, not more, accurate, if everything is not working just 
right. If you 
> were getting odd results driving the spectro from ColorBase, I 
would assume 
> that there was a problem there which is responsible for your odd 
results. 


Well this is where it is weird. Initially I intended to leave it here 
and use CB only for USFA and no CB for EEM (and this may be what I 
will be ending with). Bu then I noticed that I got a smoother tone 
with CB activated : the tone is not the one but it is smoother. I 
know there are debates whether CB is useful on a single printer, but 
I suspect that if it runs a proper calibration (linearization is thus 
fine), which would explain the smoothness of the skin tone it is 
worth giving it additional experimentation. I can't figure out 
whether a given paper-ink combination implies a choice bewteen tone 
smoothness and color accuracy or if you can get both.

Olivier