Digital BW, The Print

Note to B&W fanatics: the tools to measure grayscales are already  
available to you in Spyder3Print.

Simply select the one or three page 729 patch target, and configure  
your rows and columns to match.  Then read any number of patches up to  
729 into the target (if you need less than 256 patches, one of the  
other targets may be more convenient); if you configured your target  
properly you will get all the advantages of patch numbers and row end  
indicators. Hit the 3 key to eliminate the existing colors from being  
displayed, so you can see just your measured values as you read. When  
you have finished and checked your patches visually (and checked the  
Lab values numerically if you care to) you choose the Export option  
from the Tools menu, and a tab deliniated text file of your  
measurements is created in the Export folder. Open this in Excel to  
clip off blank rows at the bottom or to reconfigure if your  
application doesn't read standard Lab values. That should cover it.

Note to Jon: measurements of grays should even more consistant than  
other colors, as the challenging areas are in the saturated colors.  
Our consistancy is about ten times better than the EyeOne, as we have  
a two channel device (the Spectrolino had both a reference and a  
sample channel, as we do, with the EyeOne and ColorMunki the reference  
channel has been eliminated), as well as being a solid state LED based  
device.

C. D. Tobie
WW Product Technology Mngr.
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
DataColor.com
CDTobie@...

On Dec 12, 2008, at 8:31 PM, "Brian Corll" <briancorll@...>  
wrote:

> Note to SpyderPrint software developers: We need the ability to  
> create and
> use custom B&W targets !  Having been a software developer for many  
> years, I
> don’t think that’s such a tall order.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Brian Corll
>
>
>
> From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of  
> Jon Cone
> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 2:59 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Brian and David  was Re: [Digital BW] Profiling with  
> Dedicated B&W
> Inks
>
>
>
> David,
>
> Can you give a hand with this actual data rather than leaving it up in
> the air like this? I am willing to put the work in on this side to
> make it work on my end. If you can help with your product on your end
> - this could be good for everyone. Your Spyder is way cheaper than an
> EyeOne or a DTP70 - I think it would be worth your while to help
> fashion some process.
>
> Do you have access to making a simple 256 patch gray target from
> 0-255? And then supplying it to the users? Or/and can you supply the
> Excel conversion process to convert the data to something usable?
>
> Thanks,
>
> jon
>
>
>
>
>
>
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