Re: Why don't drivers use a CMYK profile?
Re: Why don't drivers use a CMYK profile?
- Subject: Re: Why don't drivers use a CMYK profile?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 23:32:30 EST
In a message dated 11/8/00 9:02:54 PM, email@hidden writes:
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What I'd like to see happen is a way to bypass the vendor supplied generic
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CMYK conversion (second step) and allow a more advanced user to create
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a
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CMYK profile that is accurate for the media they are using. One of the
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reasons for this is that the vendor supplied RGB to CMYK value converter
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is
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coded to assume that the source RGB space is sRGB (darn Windows centric
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engineers). Thus, the single profile that ships with the printer is
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essentially a sRGB profile.
Yes, my sRGB conspiracy theory gets more evidence to support it every day...
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I'd like to do better than that, or at least give a smart user the ability
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to do better than that. However, I'm not a color scientist, and I don't
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play
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one on TV. So, I thought I'd bring this up here and tap the brains of those
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who know more than I about color science.
Well I'm not a color scientist either, and only play one on the internet, and
occasionally in front of a gullible audience; but the real color scientists I
work with assure me that this is possible, just unlikely for assorted
practical reasons.
By the way, having access at this level would allow control over ink limits,
UCR, GCR, UCA and black generation functions.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
email@hidden