2016-04-20 by brian_downunda@...
Jumping back into the weeds of monitor-to-print matching for a moment (which was not the direct topic of artodd138's last question as I read it), and at the risk of being seen as a pedant, you can't do preserve numbers soft-proofing without an ICC. So the question is not whether you use an ICC, but how you use it.
TBH, I don't find either way of using the the ICC entirely satisfactory, as my blog post explained.
---In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, <forums@...> wrote :
So in the manual we lay out a method for making one’s screen match a print (that doesn’t utilize icc, just gamma 2.2 images). Included in there is how to do the soft-proofing.