Digital BW, The Print

OK, just a follow up... I have emailed Mark and found that he really only does use the sort of extended MacBeth chart for the fade testing. The other 910 patch target he uses to make sure there are no obvious printing issues. I've reviewed his test reports to see what he is doing and given him some comments that I've gathered from many people over the past 10 years of my inkjet printing and testing. All that said his tests are far and away better than anything anyone has tried to do, but I think there are still several facets for the color tests that need to be worked on. The B/W testing looks pretty good and I have no real complaints about it.

That said this guy needs our help to get to the level where he can make this work self sustaining. If you are making your living or even a decent amount of money with your printing business, the personal $25 membership is not for you. The benefits you could see from this type of testing are worth a lot more than that, pay the man what it is worth and don't take advantage of him. My $25 went in just to see what was happening, even though I could have had a free pass if I worked a connection. I may never send any prints in for testing, it just costs him too much money per run, those of you that have done some testing like this know exactly what I mean. (yes this paragraph is a guilt trip for those of you that are taking advantage of the $25 personal membership)

And finally I'm sure there are a large number of you who are thinking "Who is this idiot, what is he talking about, and why does he think he knows better?". All I can do is ask that you keep those comments to yourselves as it will quickly go beyond the focus of this group into the off topic realm.