Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 9/12/02 10:18:38 PM, frank@... writes:

>Or, using the wizard, I set my contrast and then brightness until the 
>middle square is "as dark as possible but not black" - still 
>distinguishable from its surrounding.
>
>All as per instruction.
>
>Now if I view (under the same light) a 21 step tablet the 95/100% 
>almost meld into one another Pretty close to being indistinguishable 
>which is not right. 

Then you need to go back and adjust the settings for that black-on-black 
square...

C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
CDTobie@...

> >Or, using the wizard, I set my contrast and then brightness until 
the 
> >middle square is "as dark as possible but not black" - still 
> >distinguishable from its surrounding.
> >
> >All as per instruction.
> >
> >Now if I view (under the same light) a 21 step tablet the 95/100% 
> >almost meld into one another Pretty close to being 
indistinguishable 
> >which is not right. 
> 
> Then you need to go back and adjust the settings for that black-on-
black 
> square...
> 
> C. David Tobie
Then except to get me into the ballpark, there's no value to the 
Adobe gamma setting - I may as well only use the 21 step tablet to 
set the brightness until I distinguish all the steps ?