Digital BW, The Print

Their argument is that a software adjustment for UV will only be done for
the Perceptual intent and that there are reasons why you'd want it for
Relative Colorimetric (and possibly Absolute Colorimetric) as well.  So I'm
kind of stuck.  I can do the linearization with my i1 but not the profiles
and the linearization would not be valid for their profiles (which I would
not really want to use anyway).  It's either CB to get the profiling engine
which requires a new spectro or purchase, say, PM5.  One is still cheaper
than the other but it seems a little silly...


> From: Greg <dfaprinting@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 18:55:33 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Da Vinci Fibre Gloss Paper
> 
> --- 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.