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Re: Help making BW profiles

2009-07-01 by Tyler Boley

yes I remember. Still, you shouldn't have to do that, it's really best to print the chart exactly as the eventual files you are printing with the resulting profile will be printed. 
It may work fine though. The way  we always did it was simply convert to multi channel, duplicate twice so 3 channels, then back to RGB. Used to have to do stuff like that all the time to RGB and CMYK, and just made an action.
None of this should be necessary though, has Roy commented?
Frankly I've just stayed with CS3 until I start hearing more "all clear"s from CS4 users. I'm paranoid...

All you can do is try it.
Tyler

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Keith R." <kjrslr@...> wrote:
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley" <tyler@> wrote:
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> > never convert or alter a profile creation chart, it will make the resulting profile invalid. CS4 has created some color management dilemmas, one would hope that Adobe, of all people, would keep the color management processes viable over time.
> Thanks for the reply Tyler. Don't know if you've seen this converter from Ernst Dinkla's site:
> http://www.pigment-print.com/Quad%20QTR/Index.html
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> In particular, the Tiffconvert app:
> A straight (and odd) converter for Greyscale to RGB and CMYK. Each color channel gets the same values the greyscale had. So no black generation changes in the CMYK file.  Originally used to  print B&W Quad  and Hexatone inksets on a pure CMYK based RIP system. Written by Gert-Jan de Vos.
> 
> Seems like just the thing to overcome the CS4 problem.
>

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