Digital BW, The Print

Hi,
I've always edited for QTR in QTR Grey Lab colour space and printed using QTR Grey Matte. 

I do this because it said to do it in the instructions.

Printing in Grey Matte.icc makes sense, but what difference would it make if I edited in Grey Gamma 2.2 as, when it is converted to QTR Grey Matte for printing, surely it will end up the same?

It's just a nuisance to have to convert to Grey Gamma 2.2 all the time whenever I want an image to display correctly on someone else's computer.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Richard
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³I've always edited for QTR in QTR Grey Lab colour space and printed using
QTR Grey Matte. ³

This is not at all necessary.  Edit in the workspace you prefer and convert
to the output space ³on-the-fly² at printing.  I use Gray Gamma 2.2 because
it¹s a nice subset of Adobe RGB to which I send files from Adobe Camera Raw
that are destined for B&W printing. (I use Pro Photo RGB for colour work.)
If possible, I would not use QTR Grey Matte as your print space but rather
use a profile generated for your printer.  For this you need a densitometer
at least.

From: Richard Smallfield <r.smallfield@...>
Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:44:14 +1200
To: Digital BW Print <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [Digital BW] QTR Grey Lab icc

 
 
 

Hi,
I've always edited for QTR in QTR Grey Lab colour space and printed using
QTR Grey Matte. 

I do this because it said to do it in the instructions.

Printing in Grey Matte.icc makes sense, but what difference would it make if
I edited in Grey Gamma 2.2 as, when it is converted to QTR Grey Matte for
printing, surely it will end up the same?

It's just a nuisance to have to convert to Grey Gamma 2.2 all the time
whenever I want an image to display correctly on someone else's computer.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Richard



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