Digital BW, The Print

Actually, that's a silly question because you're using the epson driver, 
not qtr. Let me rephrase it then - for someone with qtr would there be 
any benefits in this method over using a properly linearised qtr curve?

Howard

Howard Shaw wrote:
> Thanks Keith
> 
> The usual way of linearising QTR curves is to insert the density or 
> luminance figures from the 21-step into the bottom of the .qidf file. 
> Are you using the icc profile as an additional check on this method or 
> as a replacement for it? If the latter case could you explain why you 
> think this use of icc profiles is a better way of linearising?
> 
> Thanks
> Howard
> 
> 
> Keith Cooper wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> I've been having a go at using the PrintFIX PRO for luminance icc profile building and have 
>> got a short article about it at.
>> 
>> http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/printfix_pro_for_bw.html
>> 
>> The improvement in BO printing with an Epson 1290 was quite noticeable (see the graph at 
>> the bottom of the page)
>> 
>> Using Excel to handle the data might have been a bit excessive, but it did make lots of pretty 
>> graphs :-)
>> 
>> Keith Cooper
>> 
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