Digital BW, The Print

Carl paid $895 for the UV Pulse Spectro (only) from X-Rite.  RIP plus
separate profiling is expensive.  I think I'm going to hang back for now
although I could buy a RIP and outsource the profiling (given I can do the
measurements).


> From: Greg <dfaprinting@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 18:25:05 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Da Vinci Fibre Gloss Paper -  Colorburst
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
> <stevekale@...> wrote:
>> 
>> 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.  
> 
> Yes, there are difficluties with using the software form of UV
> correction when using relative rendering. It often shows up as a
> strange purple shift to colors out side the gamut. And it even
> manifests itself with PMP5 generated profiles. To buy just a DTP-20
> spectro is around $875 USD, almost better to buy the full Pulse
> package. Or you could step up to the DTP-70, it's only about $3000
> USD.
> 
> Don't they have a bundle with the RIP and spectro?
> 
> And there are of course other RIPs to be used if you want to
> experiment, most all of them will still require CMYK profiles.