Re: Black and White Profiles
Re: Black and White Profiles
- Subject: Re: Black and White Profiles
- From: "edmund ronald" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:29:58 +0100
Hey, Jim, Steve - all I care about is the densities, the hue is my
problem - or rather the Epson black and white drivers's problem ...
Edmund
On 12/6/06, Steve Kale <email@hidden> wrote:
Plus a transfer curve won't allow soft proofing for the hue of the printed
output. You're trying to reinvent the wheel.... Edmund, take a look at the
little programme. You'll find no issues with "installation" and the
shareware fee will save you a lot of headache.
> From: Steve Kale <email@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:40:47 +0000
> To: Jim Rich <email@hidden>, edmund ronald <email@hidden>,
> Colorsync list <email@hidden>
> Conversation: Black and White Profiles
> Subject: Re: Black and White Profiles
>
> That coupled with black point compensation and white-point scaling.
>
>
>> From: Jim Rich <email@hidden>
>> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:15:32 -0500
>> To: edmund ronald <email@hidden>, Colorsync list
>> <email@hidden>
>> Conversation: Black and White Profiles
>> Subject: Re: Black and White Profiles
>>
>> Edmund,
>>
>> Actually, I have described this procedure numerous times on this list and of
>> course in a few books.
>>
>> You need a densitometer to measure dot area.
>>
>> In the Photoshop Color Settings Custom Dot Gain Grayscale dialog box there
>> are 13 dot area steps.
>>
>> You create a target with those halftone dot values and print them.
>> Then you measure the print.
>> Place the values that were derived from the print in that dialog box.
>> You will want to take multiple measurement and do some averaging, then some
>> prints to verify the results.
>>
>> That's the basic idea to create a custom grayscale profile.
>>
>> Jim Rich
>>
>>
>> On 12/6/06 11:41 AM, "edmund ronald" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe someone should bounce this question to Adobe - I thought there
>>> would be a tool for integrating sensitometric readings into PS, and
>>> that transfer curves were that - or else how did printers do it in the
>>> olden days ?
>>>
>>> Edmund
>>
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