Unfortunately, I
have a novice to intermediate knowledge of color management (I'm ordering 'Real
World Color Mgmt' this weekend). I am a graphic designer in an architectural
firm where 98% of our color printing goes to our in-house printer - primarily
marketing materials with many of photos of our projects. We do not have any
color calibration equipment or software.
I have setup the
following workflow based on tips, advice and info found on this
forum...
Initial
Input
Scanned images
(Epson 3200) are scanned to RGB Tiff with Adobe98 profile
embedded
Digital
Camera images (Canon EOS 10D) are shot to RGB Jpeg with
the default sRGB profile embedded
Working
OSX
10.3.9
Image editing is
done in Photoshop 7 which is set to an Adobe98 working
space
it is also set to
'ask when opening' if mismatched
if mismatched
(DigiCam shots) I always 'Assign working RGB: Adobe RGB
(1998)'
Illustrator 10.0.3 and InDesign 2.0.1 have similar color
settings
Monitor
Apple 17" Studio
Display (LCD)
set to use a
profile I visually created using the builtin OSX 'Display Calibrator
Assistant'
Export
Layout is done in
InDesign 2.0 which uses the same Photoshop color
settings
ALL finished materials are exported to PDF for printing
PDF export is set
to 'Color: Leave Unchanged' and 'Include ICC Profiles' is
unchecked
Printing
Xerox Phaser
790
using the
ColorWise ProTools I have created a custom profile with CMYK curves adjuasted up about 10%
printing
from Adobe Reader 7, the printer driver gets set to 'RGB Source
Profile: Adobe98' and 'Output
Profile: my +10% profile'
prints are
consistently an acceptable match to my Mac screen
this is true even
when other users print from Reader 6 on their WinXP machines using the same
driver settings
