Re: Black and White Profiles
Re: Black and White Profiles
- Subject: Re: Black and White Profiles
- From: Jim Rich <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:04:04 -0500
- Thread-topic: Black and White Profiles
I have been away from my office at the GATF event, so I might have missed
something here, so if I have sorry for the wasted words.
But it sure seems that if you want want to control a printer and produce B&W
prints the best way to do it is to use a RIP. That is a proven method with
out all of the fussing with a printer driver.
Jim Rich
On 12/6/06 3:29 PM, "edmund ronald" <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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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