Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 8/30/06 3:33:49 PM, stevekale@... writes:


> D50 is the graphics standard for print illumination. Lighting booths are
> most often D50. When you make ICC profiles, your spectrophotometer most
> likely illuminates the test chart with D50 illumination. It〓s logical to
> have all of these consistent.
> 

The spectro uses whatever illuminant it has inside... but it normalizes those 
values to D50 for ICC purposes. I don't expect that this users dark prints 
issues is based on that, however; I hear this complaint often, and I've not 
found recalibrating the monitor to d50 to be a solution.

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Unit
Datacolor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com


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