Datacolor User to User Support Group.

I creatd a profile using the extended greys, made a test and it seems
to work greatly. Now, can this profile be used both for color and b&w?
or should I use the readings from the colored patched only to build a
new profile for use in color prints?

--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, CDTobie@... wrote:
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> In a message dated 5/9/07 5:11:55 PM, michele@... writes:
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> > I am starting to profiling my papers for this printer right now. Do
> > you still need the XLM?
> > 
> Thanks, but that was all covered long ago...
> > 
> > I remember there was a thread on this group outlining the workflow to
> > be used to incorporate the extended greys into the color profile but
> > can't find it.. Does anyone remember the thread?
> > 
> Dave Miller wrote a nice piece about that, but the essence of it is
that you 
> need to print the 225 patch color target and the extended grays
target both on 
> the same paper from the same settings. Then (selecting the
appropriate target 
> on the preceeding screen) read each back in seperately. Name
similarly, but 
> so that you can tell which is which. Then you're set to select the
color 
> target, and in the cascade below it the gray target, both in the
lower half of the 
> Read Patches screen. This will build a composite profile. The
cascade won't 
> show up until at least one complete gray target is in the XML files
folder, so if 
> you can't see how to build a composite profile, its because you
don't have a 
> qualifying gray measurement set yet.
> 
> 
> C. David Tobie
> Product Technology Manager
> ColorVision Business Division
> DataColor Inc.
> CDTobie@...
> www.colorvision.com
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