Digital BW, The Print

Hi!  New to working with MIS Hextone neutral inks.  Been 
following the workflow and just have a question pertaining to this 
paragraph........

"This workflow is the same as my workflow for the 4 color Epson 
printers.  Simply use the 6 color curve and printer settings.  This 
curve will work best if you monitor is set to a gamma of 2.2.  If it 
is calibrated to another gamma, you will have to adjust the curve 
– mostly the toe.  If you are not comfortable with editing curves, 
simply make a second curve or levels adjustment layer and use 
it to adjust print output to your monitor."


does anyone know if its ok to just assign your profile for that file 
to gamma 2.2, or does the whole monitor actually have to be 
calibrated to 2.2?

thanks!

jen

Jen:

I assume you are using John Woolf's workflow.  

If you want to have a decent match between what you see on your 
monitor and the print then the gamma of the monitor and image and 
printer should be set to 2.2.  As John says, you can mix 2.2 and 1.8 
gammas, but you will need to tweak the curve.

Jeff Randall

-- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "radonprojects" 
<radonprojects@y...> wrote:
> Hi!  New to working with MIS Hextone neutral inks.  Been 
> following the workflow and just have a question pertaining to this 
> paragraph........
> 
> "This workflow is the same as my workflow for the 4 color Epson 
> printers.  Simply use the 6 color curve and printer settings.  This 
> curve will work best if you monitor is set to a gamma of 2.2.  If 
it 
> is calibrated to another gamma, you will have to adjust the curve 
> – mostly the toe.  If you are not comfortable with editing curves, 
> simply make a second curve or levels adjustment layer and use 
> it to adjust print output to your monitor."
> 
> 
> does anyone know if its ok to just assign your profile for that 
file 

> to gamma 2.2, or does the whole monitor actually have to be 
> calibrated to 2.2?
> 
> thanks!
> 
> jen