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: "joe borne" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 18:01:06 -0500
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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
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the color tone of the base stock. This opens the issue of whether you wish to
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reduce the red component of all the light tones so that CMY tones form a
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neutral gray, or not. If not, then nothing has changed from standard
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newsprint, except that all your images (K only B&Ws as well as CMYK color
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images) will have a consistant color cast in the pale areas. If you choose to
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incorporate the correction in the profile, then color images will be correct,
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up to the white point, which will inevitably be dark and pink; while B&W
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images will have the pink cast visible in all light tones, unless you print
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them as CMYK images and balance the CMY grays... not likly, I'm sure. If your
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paper was being layed out in InDesign (even less likely!) then you would be
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able to see this effect clearly on screen, as the profile would be applied to
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the entire document background on screen, as well as the placed images.
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.
Color management cannot solve the inherent problems of this, or any other
printing process. It can however, narrow the degree of variance you see in
color results. You will see an improvement, but be sure to adequately
educate the customer on what to expect.
--
Joe Borne
Color & Graphic Technology Consultant
(859) 282-0393
-- "The worst thing to do is nothing" --