Digital BW, The Print

Steve,

My recollection is that in the past you've advocated using the ABW
default "darker" setting.  Have you changed your mind, and if so -
why?  Or has something else changed - or is my memory at fault?!

Steve Gledhill
http://www.virtuallygrey.co.uk/


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
<stevekale@...> wrote:
>
> Profiling a linear device will be better so I'd use either the Norm
or Light
> setting (both for printing the test chart for profiling and on an
on-going
> basis) and create an ICC profile using that data.
> 
> 
> > From: edrudolpho <erudolph@...>
> > Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:51:26 -0000
> > To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: [Digital BW] Re: ABW users:  which ABW setting do you use?
> > 
> > One other note, maybe of interest.  After printing 21-step wedges
for the Dark
> > and for the 
> > Norm and for the Light settings, and examining the Measure Tool
text files,
> > the Norm and 
> > Light ABW settings gave very linear L values.  The Dark setting
gave L values
> > with marked 
> > drop off in the last three steps.
> > 
> > Ed
>