Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 9/23/06 7:43:11 PM, mark@... writes:


> All of that. It has always been that way if you don't print it 
> yourself, and then even yourself will judge differently every day, 
> depending on how tired you are, mood your in, been out in the sun, 
> cold or hot, etc.
> 
> If you do things strictly by the numbers, it WILL look that way. It 
> needs emotion.
> 
Funny you should post that now. One of the things that I've been most 
enthused about with PrintFIX PRO 2.0 isn't just that it makes more neutral and more 
linear prints than I can get out of the same printers without it; its that it 
has all these controls that allow me to adjust how the grays ramp to paper 
white, how cross tints blend, how much shadow detail I      want to see, stuff 
like that. These are the areas where personal style occurs. I will be interested 
to see our European manager tweak a profile or two at Photokina; he's an 
incredible B&W photographer, but hasn't had the time or patience to work much with 
previous B&W print systems. I'm sure with his eye he'll come up with some 
great results, in ways that I wouldn't have thought of.

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Division
DataColor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com


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