Digital BW, The Print

Todd,

One of the best things you can do in Piezo with unsupported papers is to
print a step wedge with each profile to see which profiles you prefer for
that paper. I would think that is the best starting point, and Nina has
outlined her approach to this in the past. There are probably too many
profiles now to do this with all of them! In this way, you see how certain
profiles will compress or expand certain tonalities on different media... I
personally have never played with the dot-gains and gamma of the Piezo
driver, as I've not felt the need!

In this sense, tweaking the pfoiles with Gamma and Dot-gain is
'experimental' as they say at Cone Editions!

I find, without any special tuning, that the screen gives me a very good
impression of the tonality of my prints (with Piezo) and a well-selected
profile. If I am disappointed with any print, it probably comes down far
more to other issues like how the sharpening looks at a print size... or how
the grain looks when it's enlarged, and so on (I quite like grainy prints in
some situations) but sometimes it 'works' at certain print-sizes and not at
others - which is difficult to visualise when zooming into the image on
screen.

Overall, I have found it far harder (and probably have not resolved!) the
issues of getting a web-image to give the same feel that a print does!

Happy printing!
Nij


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Flashner [mailto:tflash@...]
> Sent: 14 October 2001 06:40
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: custom dot gain curves
>
>
> on 10/14/01 12:23 AM, Martin Wesley wrote:
>
> > See what you have been missing!
>
> And people bitch about the tweaking we do for MIS VM? ;-)
>
> What do you think is the best way to do a similar thing (custom dot gain)
> for RGB images with the MIS VM setup? My system prints good step
> wedges, but
> though my monitor is hardware calibrated, it's way contrastier
> and brighter
> than my prints. What is the best way to mitigate that while I'm quad
> printing, without throwing my monitors calibration out of whack on the
> whole?
>
> Thanks
> Todd