Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "robert49brake" 
<robert49brake@...> wrote:

As a disclaimer: I have no direct experience with the icc profile/color 
workflow of ut3d+2100. But I have considered it seriously and took a 
lot of advice, amongst others from Datacolor's David Tobie. 

What I learned: in theory the icc/color workflow gives one the 
opportunity to (split)-toning in Photoshop, preview it on screen and 
print it. In practice however, the color gamut one can obtain is very 
limited, apparently difficult to discriminate from neutral. 

As a result I stayed with my 2100 + ut3d + eye-one + QTR workflow. 

To be totally honest: this was because I aready owned an eye-one. If I 
would have a spider, I would consider the icc workflow for different 
reasons: on windows one can't print directly to QTR. In a color 
workflow this is much easier. 

Frankly, the toning possibilities of UT3D (or whatever other inkset) do 
not appeal very much to me anymore. These days, I just print neutral. 
In terms of ease of profiling, UT3D is actually a pretty convenient 
inkset to get a dead neutral (= fractional lab a and lab b values) QTR 
profile. The pre-mixed inks make this rather simple. On the other hand, 
if I would set up my 2100 from scratch I would probably go for the 4k+ 
inkset (standard inks, possibility to get dead neutral prints as well, 
glossy prints and, ok...., toning still possible).

Joost


 
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "fogmarco" 
> <marco.fogarolo@> wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to create new icc profile for ut3d with 2100.
> > still today I used a old densitometer with the Paul Roark workflow 
> > (thank you Paul).
> > Now I have available the new datacolor spyder3print and I have some 
> > question:
> > 1- is possible to create directly the profile for ut-3d with this 
> > software? The guide say that I need the 2.0 version.
> > 2 - I will have better result using directly the datacolor software 
or 
> > is better to going on with paul workflow?
> >