Re: colorsync-users digest, Vol 2 #74 - 14 msgs
Re: colorsync-users digest, Vol 2 #74 - 14 msgs
- Subject: Re: colorsync-users digest, Vol 2 #74 - 14 msgs
- From: "joe borne" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 08:40:30 -0500
"Russell Proulx" wrote:
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Please excuse me if some of my questions have been asked before. I just
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scanned <G> through the more than 1500 messages I've "been meaning
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to read" and I haven't found the answers I've been looking for.
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My adventure with profiling to date has been less than successful, though
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I do see some light at the end of the tunnel which is what keeps me
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crawling on. I've invested in a Mc7 monitor calibrator and WiziWYG. The
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printers I'm trying to calibrate are all photographic (Pictrography, Fuji
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Frontier, KodakLED) and all RGB. My monitor is a Mitsu-1010e
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1) What kind of RGB working space is recommended when outputting to
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this kind of RGB printer which offers a larger color gamut than CMYK
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(which I view using BruceRGB)?
I would not use BruceRGB (no offense Bruce). It is a non-standard RGB space
and is non-uniform in some environments. I would use the Adobe 1998 because
it is large enough to incorporate most RGB printers nicely and it is an
industry standard.
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2) Will soft-proofing such a profiled RBG image in Photoshop6 be
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affected by the choice of this RGB colorspace and can this be a source
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of off colour prints?
yes
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3) I've discovered an interesting "profile editing kludge" with WiziWYG. I
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can use Photoshop to select and alter the sample color swatches which
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were scanned together with the IT8 target print and then run this
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"doctored" version through the profiling software. This appears to be a
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cheap way to "edit" the profile. If a print comes out too yellow in the
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midtones then I just select the color swatches in the scan and add a
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similar amount of yellow to the midtones. When passed through the
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WiziWYG profiling software the result is a profile with less yellow in the
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midtones. Anyone else having any success with this kind of cheap editing?
I haven't done that, sounds scary. I would probably invest in a profile
editing package instead.
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4) If I want to profile a postscript printer (such as a Xerox color copier),
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should Postscript Color Management be turned on or off when printing the
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color swatch target?
OFF OFF OFF! Will someone please put a gravestone over Postscript Color
Management so we can move on?
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--
Joe Borne
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