Re: Profiling non white stock on web newsprint.
Re: Profiling non white stock on web newsprint.
- Subject: Re: Profiling non white stock on web newsprint.
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 09:12:41 EST
In a message dated 12/1/00 2:48:49 AM, email@hidden writes:
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A hard one...
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I'm about to attempt to profile a web newsprint on pinkish paper, not unlike
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the stock used for Financial Times, and the likes.
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Does anyone have any experience with something similar to this they would
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like to share, stuff that makes this differ from ordinary newsprint
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profiling, special things I should be aware of?
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The only thing unique to this, as opposed to a (roughly) neutral newsprint is
the color tone of the base stock. This opens the issue of whether you wish to
reduce the red component of all the light tones so that CMY tones form a
neutral gray, or not. If not, then nothing has changed from standard
newsprint, except that all your images (K only B&Ws as well as CMYK color
images) will have a consistant color cast in the pale areas. If you choose to
incorporate the correction in the profile, then color images will be correct,
up to the white point, which will inevitably be dark and pink; while B&W
images will have the pink cast visible in all light tones, unless you print
them as CMYK images and balance the CMY grays... not likly, I'm sure. If your
paper was being layed out in InDesign (even less likely!) then you would be
able to see this effect clearly on screen, as the profile would be applied to
the entire document background on screen, as well as the placed images.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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