Digital BW, The Print

Maybe I did misunderstand. Here is the instruction sheet: 


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"Version A has been edited, converted to 8-bit mode, sharpened for
output and tagged with a custom gamma working space. This is the
"control" sample to see how various printer, driver and ink
combinations respond to identical input. DO NOT ALTER THIS FILE!
Preserve the embedded space and print without any adjustments......".
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I took "preserve the embedded space and print Without Any Adjustments"
to mean, - don't apply your QTR ICC Create linearized curve, but send
to the printer totally unmanaged, which is easy enough out of QTR, you
just send the tagged workspace over there and let it do all the tonal
management, "raw" and unmanaged tonally. Anyway, I guess I screwed up
on A and mine will remain dark.

Also related to this, the older Epson printers like the 7000's I'm
using for PiezoTone, vary widely and didn't have the tight production
tolerances that the new printers have so, a "custom" linearization is
totally necessary to keep things in line in my experience.

John 






 There was some difference of understanding about 
> what a "raw" print meant, but if you had linearization, CreateICC
profiles, or 
> curves specific to the paper, ink, and printer, they certainly
should have been 
> part of the "A" print process.
> 
> C. David Tobie
> Product Technology Manager
> ColorVision Business Unit
> Datacolor Inc.
> CDTobie@...
> www.colorvision.com
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