Digital BW, The Print

I am not qualified to debate the merits of scaling in XYZ vs some other form
of scaling.  All I can say is that the ICC requires white point scaling in
XYZ for media relativity and Adobe does their black point compensation by
scaling in XYZ.  In some respects one might say "don't fight it Marsha -
it's bigger than both of us!".  The power of the soft proof is that for a
well calibrated monitor one can see the effect of the necessary tonal
compression - either way it is necessary cos that infinitely-sized peg just
isn't going to fit in that small printer space hole - and alter it if one
feels obliged.


> From: Paul Roark <paul.roark@...>

> 
> It is about the same as what the monitor does, if not "corrected" with a
> custom dot gain curve.  However, looking at if from the perspective of what
> makes the best print, we are wasting precious grayscale.  If in 8 bit, our
> 256 steps is reduced to about 218 effective steps.  I'm not sure that is a
> wise compromise at all.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com