Re: ICC compliant print shops?
Re: ICC compliant print shops?
- Subject: Re: ICC compliant print shops?
- From: "Tara Marlowe" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 09:45:07 -0500
"Dave King" <email@hidden> writes
It seems to me the most conservative approach will be to deliver tagged 36
bit
RGB (my working space is Adobe RGB 98) and let the printer make final
tweaks
if needed, then downsample and convert to their own CMYK press profile? I
can
provide ink-jet "guide" prints, but not proofs.
I am a NYC digital retoucher. I have been working with a client to establish
a workflow where the photos edited in 16 bit RGB (Kodak ProPhoto colorspace)
and converted by the printer to CMYK. We plan on proofing in-house with an
Epson 5000 where the file is converted in the Epson RIP to a profile created
by the printer to match his Kodak Color Approval. This way the inkjet proofs
should show only what's available in the end. We have been pretty successful
at getting the eposn to match the Approval. We are using their profiles and
working backward from there.
My questions are these:
1)I have been instructed to deliver a 16 bit RGB file. Will anything bad
happen if I need to convert to 8 bit to accomplish some retouching and then
convert back to 16?
2) Anybody see anything wrong with using the Kodak ProColor space for files
that will end up in CMYK for offset? I remember hearing that it means I will
be editing colors that I can't see on my monitor since it has a larger gamut
and that it tends to separate out to some pretty flat, oversaturated areas.
The images are mostly metal, jewelry and the like. Nothing terribly bright
but does include some pastels.
Tara Marlowe
DIGITAL, Inc.
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