Digital BW, The Print

Dear Steve/Clayton.

As a newbie most of this thread goes completely over my head.

   I greatly appreciate the ongoing conversation between you two as I am 
getting ready to use Clayton's method as my starting point. I would 
like to keep printing as simple as possible and BO works well and looks 
great. Anything that can be done to refine and improve upon Clayton's 
work will be gratefully received. Including your kind offer of a soft 
proof curve.

Not having excess funds I profile using the onboard Mac software. It 
will have to suffice.

Thanks for the knowledge and the conversation.

Drime


On Apr 11, 2005, at 5:48 AM, Steve Kale wrote:


> Hi Clayton
>
>
>  > From: Clayton Jones <cj@...>
>
> SNIP

>  I am glad it works for you.  But as I have simply suggested WYSIWYG 
> is not
>  possible on a well profiled decent monitor without a softproof 
> mechanism -
>  if only because of the black point.  That is the case regardless of 
> how the
>  file is tagged and what gamma is selected.  So simply tagging a file 
> DG20%
>  and selecting 1.8 in the driver won't get you there for a very large
>  proportion of today's monitors and particularly LCDs.  You arrived at 
> your
>  workflow through countless hours of trial and error.  I'm glad it 
> works for
>  you.  The question is whether it can now be refined so that less 
> people have
>  the "matching monitor and print issue" - or more simply whether your
>  starting point is best recommended for new users.  One step is to 
> make the
>  print space closer to the workspace.  The next step is to provide a 
> soft
>  proof which people can use to preview their images on screen and 
> amend them
>  accordingly.  Both these steps are very easy.  I will post a soft 
> proof ICC
>  file for Eboni on EEM later today (I am out for most of the afternoon 
> and
>  evening, UK time).
>
>
>


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