Re: WiziWYG scanner profiles

["Gary L. Hunt" <glh@srv.net>]

At 08:43 AM 12/21/1999 EST, CDTobie@designcoop.com wrote:

   >   <SNIP>
   > ...................Keep in mind as well, that IT8 targets, 
   >especially the homegrown ones that come with WiziWYG, do not have to be 
   >neutral, they simply have to have a data file that matches the state of
the 
   >patches on the target. 

I think I confirmed this (unintentionally) when trying to make a profile that 
would produce off-color prints deliberately.  I altered the entire scan of
the 
IT-8 target and the printer-produced test bars, and the resulting profile gave
results not terribly different from the "normal" one.

   >Also remember that to compare a target to a corrected 
   >version on screen requires a 5000 degree lighting booth. Anything else is 
   >apples to oranges.

True, and I don't.  (However, I'm pretty sure my standard fluorescent lights
in the computer area are not going to make my printed gray scales look
warmer, which happens to be the apparent direction of my errors.)  I do
have a 5000k light box in my darkroom, but it's too heavy to hang over my
head without some serious help.  Maybe I could borrow the tubes from it.
Anybody know where I could get 5000k bulbs that would work in a standard
(old-style) shop light?

Gary Hunt <glh@srv.net>

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