Digital BW, The Print

Roy, Paul

All my thanks for taking the time to drop me an explanation.

I have to read Paul's papers before anything else now because I can't anticipate why and what in this workflow is superior. The traditional worklow with QTR is pretty straightforward and leaves no room for error. I can't yet imagine acv providing superior control and precision. Except the ability of a direct printing through PS that is a possible advantage, I'm preparing myself for a deep 'dive' into Paul's papers to find out.

The most puzzling remains the psd.raw ??? 

What a tremendous input all of you bring to the BW printing and share with others, is just incredible,.. Great newsgroup with most valuable and admirable people !!! 

Olivier 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" <paul.roark@...> wrote:
>
> 
> I strongly recommend this workflow.  
> 
> I am converting my personal work to it, and *all* of my older curves and
> workflows appear to be easily modified to take advantages of this.  Being
> able to linearize the system easily for ink and paper batch differences, not
> to mention for brand new papers, having the monitor match the print without
> the need for a custom dot gain curve, and printing from a grayscale file
> without an RGB conversion and application of a curve all make for a superior
> workflow.
> 
> What I've found is that the old curves that have flat spots in them need to
> be modified by having the flat spots converted into barely-sloped curves.
> All that I've tried so far then work.
> 
> Of course, the current system will not profile the tones for the
> variable-tone inksets, but usually the problems people have are issues of
> linearization.  
> 
> Combining "Create ICC" with the scanner method of making the ICCs (see
> http://home1.gte.net/res09aij/Making_B-W_ICCs.htm) results in a workflow
> that should give most people much better control of their systems for very
> little money.
> 
> I have some information about the use of the system in my notes on the R220
> at http://home1.gte.net/res09aij/R220_R2_Readme.htm, which is the first
> system I worked on after Create ICC was available.  However, the notes there
> relate only to the linearization of the output, not the incorporation of RGB
> curves.  I'll be covering that in the next inkset -- the UT-3D -- which is
> running on the R220, 2200 and 4000 in beta version. 
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
>