RE: Profiling Pink or Salmon Coloured News Stock
RE: Profiling Pink or Salmon Coloured News Stock
- Subject: RE: Profiling Pink or Salmon Coloured News Stock
- From: "Niall Coady" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 12:21:32 -0000
Joe Bourne wrote:
I have direct experience in dealing with this. I would profile using Monaco
in CMYK. Be sure to include compensation for the paper white in the profile.
As CD noted, you will have pinkish highlights, but your results should be
decent. The Monaco suite allows for better profile editing than what I have
seen in other packages.
I too have experience of the News Profiling for the Financial Times stock on
both the Press and Proofer end. IMPORTANT TIP for best result! Use (P) or
Polarised Filter with a Spectrolino WHITE TABLE ONLY! Try it and you will
see a marked improvement over a Black Table with a (U) filter applied. The
point is that you will see less corruption of Highlight colour due to
scatter light with this particular paper stock. See below for MY opinion of
the best profiling solution in the market today. This is a true and
accurate account of one of my installation excercises.
I agree with Joe that Monaco provides the BEST profiling solution with it's
new Profiler 3.2. Indeed I have recently put Monaco, Gretag Macbeth Latest
Profiler 3.2_ and ColorBlind V4 latest to the test at one of our largest
accounts here in London.
* The client instantly dismissed ColorBlind because it simply made the worst
profile and to top it all off I had David Piccus with me, a former Color
Solutions and ITEC employee who is now consulting in Salt Lake City UTAH,
the point being that David would not intentionally let the ColorBlind
profile build improperly.
* The second profile was made with Gretag and although the result was much
better than the ColorBlind profile, the client stated that the scanner
profile was very poor, the output to Film and Cromalin lacked any shape the
highlight to Midtone area and the Black Generation was difficult and could
not make a proper skeleton Black for the Epson 5000 proofer.
* Yes In both cases an edit was possible in order to improve the result;
However, the first scanner, Proofers Digi Cromalin and IRIS, Film and
Cromalin profiles made with Monaco were OUTSTANDING. Simply the proofs were
instantly accurate the Grey Balance was spot on and the Shape in the
resulting proofs was recognised by a top level retouch studio as the finest
demonstration of ICC technology they had ever seen. I have the client
currently running both the scanner and Output to film profiles within the
LinoColor applications running 2 x Heidie 3400's the workflow is now running
to ColorMatch RGB where separation to CMYK in Photoshop still renders and
fantastic result with no Posterisation or loss of detail. Also I run
Praxisoft's AutoFlow and Vector Pro Workflow solutions to provide accurate
proofing on Epson 5000 with Best Rip, Mimaki with Best Rip, Euro Standard
Digital Cromalin with CM disabled and an IRIS running with GMG Color Proof.
BOTTOM LINE MONACO IS No 1 profiler in the market today. Easy to use and
accurate!
Niall Coady
Technical Director
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