Re: Monitor to paper white with Measure tool?
Re: Monitor to paper white with Measure tool?
- Subject: Re: Monitor to paper white with Measure tool?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:40:23 EST
In a message dated 1/22/01 2:58:07 PM, email@hidden writes:
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I was reading the Documentation and found the option to set my monitor
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to
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paper white in the Profilemaker Measure tool. It seems a great idea, since
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we run on newsprint. My question is if I do that, then I will need to
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go
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through the whole calibration and profiling operation again yes? And if
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I
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set my monitors to paper white what are the caveats? Will monitors
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calibrate more easily to a white point equivalent to newsprint, or will
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it
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be similar to a D50 setting and tax the phosphors unnecessarily? Also,
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the
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measurement data for the paper white should be appropriate for all monitors
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I'm calibrating/profiling right?
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Any input is appreciated.
In Photoshop 6 bring up an image, and create a new view of it, set the
proofing for that view to custom and choose the Web Uncoated v2 option from
the list at the top. Select paper white simulation, and you will begin to see
what's in store with a reduced white point, only it would be for the entire
monitor, all the time, not just one image window. Bear in mind that SNAP
would offer an even darker white point. I doubt your users would be happy
having everything they viewed on their monitors reduced to such a dull, gray
white point. And if the monitor's native white point was set to this level,
then using proper white point simulation at the application level would be
likely to double the reduction... and what happens when they work on a coated
job, to be run with coated paper on the press?
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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