QTR-Quadtone RIP

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "btvarner" <btvarner@...> wrote:
>
> Joost & Others,
> I do not want this to divert from your current question about the 
two 
> workflows you mentioned, but I have a different approach and maybe 
> someone can tell me if I am doing something wrong.
> 
> 1) Keep my monitor calibrated (using Spyder)
> 2) Process image using Lightroom, CS3, & Photokit Sharpener.(All in 
> Adobe RBG workspace)
> 2a. Use Lightroom to convert to B&W (Before this I used CS2 & 
Channel 
> Mixer Adjustment Layer)
> 3) No SoftProofing (I have found that what I see no my monitor is 
> very close to what prints out in QTR)
> 4) Save a TIF file, flatten image (I do NOT convert to 8 bit + 
image 
> file retains the color channels)
> 5) Print image with QTR GUI

Hi Bruce,

As can be inferred indirectly from my post and more directly from 
other posts on this forum, I don't belief their is no "correct" 
workflow. In the end, EXACTLY matching print and screen is dependent 
from several other circumstances than can be compensated by a wokflow 
(ambient light, absolute monitor brightness). If I compare your 
workflow with the two I have described, I THINK the difference is 
that you effectively work in a gamma 2.2 gray space, since as I 
recall this is the gray space linked to AdobeRGB and sRGB, but I may 
be mistaken. It will also depend how you have set up Photoshop 
(see "edit", "color settings" in PS CS2).

According to Ernst Dinkla in another thread, there is in practice 
littel difference between Gray-lab and gamma 2.2. So your findings 
would fit in that.

Joost