Digital BW, The Print

Olivier,

Bookmark Atkinson's webpage (in my ealier post) and check it from 
time to time. Eventually he'll release matte profiles.

I don't this is of no help to you today, right now, but when he does 
release them, I'm sure you won't have to fool with ColorBase to get 
the results you're looking for.

Scott

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Olivier" 
<odesmais@y...> wrote:
>
> > 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
>