Digital BW, The Print

Hi Martin,

> 
> In my mind Tyler seems to have spotted Jim's problem and you have confirmed
> it.

My tests showed that even with the exact profiles being used the  sRGB is
playing with the numbers far more than Adobe RGB between the two versions...
that there were the same variances with the sRGB conversion.  The only
difference making sure only one copy of a profile was on board was to the
Adobe1998 conversions, making them identical between versions.

So I don't think it's the multi profile problem, I think it's the 'way' the
two versions of PS are converting to the sRGB file, making them different in
each version.

I was hoping that Jim would convert his same gamma2.2 file to AdobeRGB
instead of the sRGB in both versions, run the prints and see if that made a
difference to his output, kept them similair.

> I took my files all the way to a print. These were the 2.2 grayscale to sRGB
> in PS6 and then in PS7 which showed some slight variation in Mean and Std.
> Dev. which in my mind is probably too small to be important. I then printed
> out both converted files in PS7 and the PS6 converted file in PS6 giving me
> three prints. After letting them season overnight and I took them outside in
> open shade to view. They are all identical as far as I can tell.

Yes, that's what I found with my print tests, althought I did not go thru
the quad partitioned workflow. Identical, even with the smaller variance in
histos. so in my mind if Jim were to do the above, convert his Gamma2.2 to
Adobe1998 after converting/printing from both versions this should tell him
if it's the sRGB conversion messing up his file too much.

Best,
Carolyn