Digital BW, The Print

> From: John Vitollo <jvlist@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:45:51 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] ABW and QTR Create ICC
> 
>> You first print a test target with No Color Management (CS2 speak -as you
>> would for a colour profile).  Say a 51 step wedge with your favourite ABW
>> settings.  (I just did 4 profiles for my warm settings, horiz/vertical 10-10
>> 10-15 10-20 15-20 20-20.) I just leave all the settings at their default and
>> adjust the hue picker.
>> Steve
> 
> Steve,
> 
> What "Tone" setting are you using in ABW? Darker? Normal? Other? I'm just
> wonder if 
> "Tone" settings affect d-max?

That doesn't matter because it is profiled and hence any setting would get
mapped out again by colour management.  I just leave everything at Epson's
intended default settings (ie darker) and only play with the hue picker.
Tone does not affect dMax but is rather a gamma type function.

(I generally credit Epson with the common sense to set their defaults at
settings which produce optimal results out of the box (with the widely-used
Adobe RGB/GG 2.2 workspace).  This is borne out by my experience.
Nonetheless, as I mentioned it doesn't matter in this case because we are
deploying colour management.)

> 
> Do you find that the 51 step wedge is more accurate than the 21 step wedge?

I actually use 101...quite probably unnecessary.  I think 51 would be the
min.

Cheers 

Steve