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Re: QTR, calibration


 

Roy,

Linearization does correct everything when doing the process carefully as you say, but I suspect the resultant component curves could be very different.? Basically, at any?given density, one will lead to a different blend?of inks than the other and one will have a different ink load than the other while still accomplishing a similar linearization.

That could be important?for DTP printing, and it could also be important when focusing on the image "grittiness" that may occur when printing on high resolution potential papers (glossy or potentially baryita).? In extreme cases, I think these differences could be significant.? Maybe this falls into the "advanced concepts" category, but I can't help but want to consider and test for this in my linearization steps process.


---Michael

On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 11:09?AM Roy Harrington via <roy=[email protected]> wrote:
Your description of method 2 makes no sense.? ?

All the values are simple ratio -- darkness of one ink vs darkness of another ink.
So K vs LK and LK vs LLK -- then calculate K vs LLK.
It's just simple algebra ->>? ? (a/b)*(b/c) = (a/c)

But as you can see from Shilesh's experiment: once you linearize is fixes most anything.


On Wed, Feb? 5, 2025 at 08:41 AM, Hendrik Kuhlmann wrote:

>
> I think in his example Shilesh demonstrated the difference between the
> two approaches we are discussing.
>
> Curve 1 illustrates *method 1*: Here the printed luminosities of all
> lighter inks are referred to K (the common reference curve): To that end
> he determines the densities (for the ink setup) by those densities in
> the calibration plot at which the K-curve has the luminosities at which
> LK and LLK reach their respective minima. In his example:
>? ??? Lmin of LK was 55% step of K
>? ??? Lmin of LLK was 25% step of K
> This method 1 corresponds to using the open square for the LLK density
> in my graph.
>
> Curve 2 illustrates *method 2*: In this case one has to multiply the two
> fractions 0.55 and 0.25. This results in 0.25 * 0.55 ~ 14 for sought
> density of LLK. This method 2 corresponds to using the solid diamond for
> the LLK density in my graph.
>
> I think in the calibration guide (p.4 of calibration.pdf) both these
> methods are getting mixed. Here are the sentences which are contradictory:
>
>? ?* Method 1: "But it's necessary to have all the relative densities to
>? ? ?a common value".
>? ?* Method 2: "Mathematically this is very simple, just a multiply: LLK
>? ? ?= 38% of 32.7% of 100 ... = 12.4%"? and "... the comparison is most
>? ? ?accurate by comparing the LLK ink to the LK ink *not to the K ink*."
>
> Both method yield the same result for the required density of LLK only
> if all ink luminosities satisfy L(K) = A - b_ink*K (with A=L(K=0) the
> common luminosity of the paper and different values of b_ink by for each
> ink). This linear relation ship holds true for very small values of K.
> But for larger K all L(K) curves saturate.
>
> I hope it is clearer now.
>
> Best,
> Hendrik
>





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