Re: lambda prints

Subject: Re: lambda prints
From: email@hidden (Anthony Sanna)
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:32:21 -0600

>anybody know what RGB colorspace a lambda in a none colorsync
>environment is expecting?

It might be time to find another Lambda service.

I have profiled a number of Lambdas at non-ColorSync'd bureaus in the
past. Being RGB, a Lambda is a pretty straight-forward device to profile
and work with - IF - the bureau is maintaining the machine and chemistry
to spec. If you have profiling tools or can utilize one of the many 3rd
party profiling services, you should have no problem creating an accurate
profile of the Lambda in question - dependent, of course, on the caveat
above. With a device profile in hand, you then do the color conversion
before sending the file to print.

However, with all due respect, you'll be spending your time and/or money
doing the "service" that the service provider should be "providing". I
don't know of any commercial Lambdas these days that are not ColorSync'd.

I normally use Adobe '98 as a color editing space, and send the file as
such to the ColorSync'd Lambda where it is converted to the profiles that
they maintain for it. In the past I used A98 as well, but would then
Profile-to-Profile in Photoshop to the Lambda profiles I had made. In
either case your lost without a profile of the Lambda.

To see an example of how different my A98 editing space was from the
Lambda's, all I needed to do was P2P the finished file. As you know, PS5
has no RGB softproof, and converting to the Lambda's profile rendered the
"natural" A98 colors starkly fluorescent.

I hope this helps.

Tony

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