Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale 
<stevekale@...> wrote:

> 
> We are in the same boat.  You can linearise with your i1 BUT current
> environments were made with UV filtered spectros so really you need 
to make
> your own environments from scratch (not too hard).  At the moment 
you can
> not use the i1 for CMYK profiling but they expect to add the 
capability to
> use other spectros some time in the future.  

Since it uses the Profiler engine, you will still need a UV filtered 
spectro. In all the years that Xrite/Monaco has had to change things, 
they still consider the job of filtering best left to the hardware.

However, if you own PMP (or any other CMYK profile creation software) 
you should be able to use CMYK profiles generated from it in the RIP. 
Linearization may or may not be possible, that all depends on whether 
they allow you to enter values by hand. Most manufacturers have cut 
this feature, which is really too bad as it then locks you into using 
their approved hardware.