Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 2/28/06 8:11:04 AM, brian@... writes:


> I disagree that profiling is only relevant to color printing - short of an
> expensive rip, an accurately profiled printer is probably the best way to
> get perfect black and white. Greys are colours too!
> As for the Printfix Pro, the main drawback is that each colour patch must be
> read individually, which is extremly tedious and time consuming . I use an
> X-Rite Pulse which scans the patches a row at a time, and I can read the
> 700+ in about 10 minutes. I tried out a Printfix at the Focus Exhibition
> here in the UK yesterday, and I reckon the same job would take 40 - 50
> minutes - you have to be very precise. If you are only doing occasional
> profiles, this may not be a problem.
> 
> Well, I find your estimates and required precision to be a bit conservative; 
I read the most commonly used (225 patch) targets in under 5 minutes. And for 
difficult devices that actually need to have lots of patches thrown at them, 
it takes me under 20 minutes to read 729 patches. So its rather less of a 
drawback than it might seem.

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Unit
Datacolor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com



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