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Re: Dedicatd B&W printer - is it worth it?

2009-09-04 by the_mark_pv

I am clearly mentally challenged ;)

I do appreciate QTR is a great tool, but I did not manage to fully grasp it yet.

And I'm referring to the profiling / curve creation part.

Marco

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "deanwork2003" <deanwork2003@...> wrote:
>
> That's a  bit of a distortion. There is no real "learning curve" unless you are mentally challenged. 
> 
> A learning curve is trying to make clean neutral monochrome out of ABW that won't shift in color over time. 
> 
> So, the answer is yes, its definitely worth the trouble.
> 
> john
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> 
> 
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> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, C D Tobie <CDTobie@> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > On Sep 2, 2009, at 5:46 PM, tboleyyh wrote:
> > 
> > > One other thing I will say, to play my own devil's advocate. Some  
> > > people either can not see the difference in the prints, or are  
> > > unconcerned with the differences. This poster sounded like he is a  
> > > fairly serious B&W worker.
> > 
> > 
> > Thats really the crux of the matter, Tyler, not "is it easy" but "do I  
> > want it"... the parenthetical part being: "want it badly enough to go  
> > through whatever learning curve and efforts are required."
> > 
> > C. David Tobie
> > Global Product Technology Manager
> > Digital Imaging & Home Theater
> > CDTobie@
> > 
> > 
> >   ----------
> > 
> > 
> > Datacolor
> > www.datacolor.com/Spyder3
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
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