Digital BW, The Print

Well I actually meant it very seriously in the sense that he does such a
large amount of testing which would be even more useful if accompanied by
quantitative (and therefore more readily communicable) measurements. I'll
happily chip in.  An individual's subjective description of what they see is
very difficult to communicate in an objective manner.  Imagine ordering
shoes over the Internet when you described your shoe size using your own
scale of 1 through 5.  How many would fit?


> From: Bob Frost <bob@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:48:10 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: more paper news
> 
> Steve,
> 
> That's a bit unfair isn't it? After all what matters in the end is how that
> marvellous optical device - the eye -assesses an image. You can quote as
> many Dmaxs, lux, etc, etc, as you like, but the only test that really
> matters is what the person with the image can see, over a long period of
> time. Leave the other equipment to the ink chemists who have to work out the
> dynamics of the chemical reactions that go on in ink/paper complexes.
> 
> Bob Frost.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Kale" <stevekale@...>
> 
> 
> I think we should all chip in and buy Clayton a spectrophotometer so that he
> can express the results of his considerable testing in a more informative
> manner.