Digital BW, The Print

Ok, a friend of mine is getting the Monaco system in a couple days so 
maybe I'll use that to work on my monitor... but still, how do you 
calibrate your screen to your quadtone printer?  Hope I'm not being a 
total simplton, but if the answer was *that* simple I'm sure I would 
have found it already.

mark

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "jacques10040" 
...
> Profiling the printer (with ColorVision's ProfilerPLUS or Monaco 
> EZ Color) tells the computer how the data in the file will look 
> when output on a your printer with a particular combination of 
> paper and ink. Setting up and using softproofing in Photoshop 
> tells the monitor to ajust its display to match what the printer 
> profile indicates the image would look like if it were printed.
> 
> The combination of printer profiling and softproofing makes the 
> onscreen image match what the print will look like. It works very 
> well for me. The monitor needs to be accurately calibrated (with 
> a hardware calibrator (again, ColorVision and Monaco are good, 
> reasonably priced options) in order to achieve good fidelity. The 
> monitor can, indeed, match paper white and ink black - its range 
> is far greater than that of paper and ink. A print will never look 
like 
> a nice, bright, contrasty, saturated onscreen image, but the 
> onscreen image can be made to resemble the more limited 
> range that's possible in a print. That's what softproofing does.
> 
> Further, note that my adjustments to the Roark curves have 
> nothing to do with screen-to-print matching. I tweaked the curves 
> simply to improve my print output. The softproof faithfully 
> reflected those tweaks in the onscreen image.
> 
> Hope that clarifies a few things.
> 
> Jacques Cornell
> 
> 
> > As a real newbee to quadtone printing who has just installed 
> the MIS 
> > VM CFS and trying to use the Roark curves I am just wondering 
> how 
> > anyone can actually match the luminous screen to actual 
> printed 
> > output?  After quite a bit of fiddling, I realized that there is 
no 
> > way to have your monitor white match your paper white or get 
> your 
> > monitor black to match 100% ink black on the paper... then it 
> gets 
> > into the lustre of the paper etc... seems pretty hopeless.  I was 
> > starting to think that the real trick is to get to know your 
system 
> > and develop a mental "transfer function" when interpreting your 
> screen 
> > image for printing, is this not the case?
> > 
> > Thanks for any insight,
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> > PS  Thanks again to Paul for his devotion to developing curves 
> and 
> > supporting the VM inkset, I am very impressed so far and love 
> the 
> > ability to dial in any tone I wish.
> > 
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "jacques10040" 
> > <jacques10040@y...> wrote:
> > ...I tweaked the Roark curve (softproofing on) to yield a good 
> > > onscreen 21-step grayscale, and am getting prints that are a 
> very 
> > > close match....