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Re: proofing

Talk money.  Say it might be possible, but how many tens of thousands of dollars and hundreds of man hours do they want to spend to get your proofer, and thus your offset press, to match a $300 dollar printer (or whatever your customer considers a "quality inkjet")?  

It would be cheaper to spend a few thousand and send your customer to take a course on color management so they could have someone else explain to them, as you have done, just how inane that method is.


Matthew Kelly
Prepress Supervisor
Litho Press, Inc.
4334 Milling Road
San Antonio, TX  78219
210-541-0707

On Feb 7, 2006, at 6:32 AM, MSD wrote:

Good morning,

 Can anyone give me something I can make understandable to easily
relay to the sales staff and prepress department regarding this issue?


- Press set to repeatable standards
- Press profiled
- HP 5500 calibrated and profiled
- Profiles patched together
- Result is that our Press, when running our standard densities, matches the HP proof.
---
- Client submits job
- Files are processed and an HP proof is made
- Press runs up to densities and the sheet matches the HP proof
- Client pulls out his proofs
   one created from his office inkjet (quality inkjet)
   one created at a color house across town (dot proof - probably Fuji final proof)
- Client wants our press sheet to match his proofs - not our supplied profiled proof
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The decision makers at the print shop now are talking of "tweaking" our curves
to match the clients proof.
This, I suppose, would involve messing with the linearization of the platesetter.
(It wouldn't do any good to "tweak" my HP if my plates do not match the clients proofs.)
---
What does one do about this?
If I "convert" to the press profile upon export, or PDF creation, from the native file
the colors would still remain consistent to the final file I have  --  correct?
I can not believe we are going to need to "tweak" our platesetter
to create custom curves so we can match every clients personal inkjet, or other proof.

Thank you for your input,
 Michael

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