Digital BW, The Print

On Apr 1, 2009, at 12:22 AM, jim kitchen wrote:

> My original term was stunning, where I added the term magic to  
> compliment
> your response. I am referring specifically to my DDC monitor's  
> ability to
> perform, and for the moment, I believe my calibrated DDC compliant  
> monitor
> adds significant value to my digital process, compared to a non DDC
> compliant monitor. Unfortunately, I do not have several monitors to  
> choose
> from nor do I desire to be in that position, because incremental  
> choices
> would drive me crazy. Although, if I added several calibrated  
> monitors to
> the equation, whether the monitors were DDC compliant or not, I would
> probably see which monitor I would never use, quickly.

Absolutely true. I also have, oh something like 55 or 60 models of  
printers here to choose from, which is enough to drive anyone crazy,  
but there only a few that are "go to" printers for me, so that, for a  
certain type of media, size, and image type, I think of one or two of  
them as the printer I would go to. The other fifty or so models just  
gather dust, if there isn't testing to be done on them.

Oddly, I have a $7000 wide gamut Eizo, with beautiful evenness and  
smoothness and tons of DDC capabilities, sitting next to a 30 inch  
Cinema display, which has a smaller color gamut, a slightly grainy  
surface, and less evenness overall (and virtually no controls), and  
yet I "go to" the Cinema for much of my image editing; its bigger, I  
can see more pixels at once... <G>

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
CDTobie@...


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