From: Peter Baumbach <grifterstudios@gmx.net> … Hi Tyler,
many thanks for your answer. This is exactly the method I created the output profile for soft-proffing in CS5.
You say "assign" the output profile (and convert to sRGB), Steve recommends "convert" to the output profile (and convert to sRGB). The results are different. What is correct? I think "assign" should be correct because I printed the step wedge the same way I print normal images (using the ImagePrint b&w profile and all the toning settings) because I am just interested in a profile for soft-proofing.
Regards, Peter Baumbach
PS: your images are gorgeous!
Hi Peter, for my purposes it's "assign", since I want to characterize exactly the whole paper/ink/printer setup as it is printing images with linearizations etc in place. So this means the treatment going in with the QTR tiff, has to be the same as an image would have been… Hope that makes sense. With my setup, since it's mono inks control by the RIP, and linearized to a standard, rather than needing 3d cm converions, I just pop the grascale target tiff right in the RIP and it works as intended. I assume IPs B&W setups utilize CM, so you may need to tag the target. If your B&W images normally are prepped in a grayscale space, maybe use that one? Thanks for your comment too. T