Re: is "grayscale profiling" possible?
Re: is "grayscale profiling" possible?
- Subject: Re: is "grayscale profiling" possible?
- From: Steve Upton <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 09:41:43 -0700
At 9:59 AM -0400 6/26/03, Armand Rosenberg wrote:
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I know this question is a bit different (what did you expect...?)
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I was wondering if anyone can suggest a technique for making high quality (ie truly neutral) RGB printer profiles *specifically* for grayscale (b&W) printing. The printers are desktop inkjets.
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You are on the right track when you think about more patches. The problem is that Compass Profile (like many programs) only allows you to increase the number of neutral / near neutral patches by increasing the total number of patches. It evenly (in device numbers) distributes the patches throughout the color space.
I am a fan of profiling systems that allow you to increase the number of patches in certain problem areas without over-sampling the entire color space. So if you have neutral or flesh-tone problems, you can increase the patches in those areas and the software responds favorably. It is a manual sort of adaptive targeting that we use now and then to solve particular problems.
I'm afraid that Compass profile won't do it in an efficient manner but you may want to try increasing the patch count, putting on some good music and settling in for a lengthy measurement session.....
Regards,
Steve
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