Digital BW, The Print

The target should not have had an embedded profile - which target are you
using?  You were right to print it without colour management.  Using the ICC
profile allows independence from your choice of workspace but personally I
would use GG2.2.  DG20 does not lead to "more open lower print values"
except by coincidence in a non colour managed workflow.


> From: Peter De Smidt <pdesmidt@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:05:40 -0800
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Paul's Recommended BW Workspace
> 
> So with all of the good info presented by Paul and others, I made my
> first grayscale ICC today.  I printed Paul's 21 step stepwedge (with
> 2.20 max density, as that's what I get with my R2400 and EPSM).  I
> noticed that the profile embedded with the file is grayscale 2.2.  I
> have been using Dot Gain 20%, as I've heard that it leads to more 'open'
> lower print values.  I didn't color manage the stepwedge. (That was the
> right thing to do, right?) Should I change my working space to 2.2 when
> I use the ICC?
> 
> BTW I used my MacBeth 914 reflection densitometer and coverted the
> visual density to L* via a formula.