PressReady / Seybold
PressReady / Seybold
- Subject: PressReady / Seybold
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:03:53 +0100
Peter MacLeod <email@hidden> wrote:
Indeed, as someone asked, the "proofing" transform uses perceptual
intent. If you want to get around it, you have two choices.
I feel like a grumpy old man droning the same line over and over.
PressReady was never an ICC proofing RIP, it was a bug that made it
to product. Pretty much like Pshop 5X which displaced colors in the
proofing gamut instead of reproducing them faithfully 1:1. (The
judges are still out on Pshop 6 and the other tools with the new
bridge.)
It was interesting to read the Seybold proofing score where
PressReady was widely preferred. Which tells me once again that only
the European vendors have the capability to harness this technology
and turn it into productivity benefits for real world users.
I'd prefer to skip the choices and get baby BEST (or pops who comes
with linearization support).
a. Baby BEST works with device profiles, which means that you can
check out the native gamut of the printer on the monitor when you
just want to print to it, and use the RIP in proof mode simply by
rotating the device profiles. The Imation MatchPrint RIP is based on
device link profiles and doesn't support a reverse transform to the
PCS e.g. for softproofing. The Adobe RIP doesn't support custom
device profiles either, and the wiring is all wrong.
b. Baby BEST has simple controls to toggle between paper white
simulation and factoring out paper white, depending on what you want.
Just as Linocolor 6, and almost in the same words.
c. Baby BEST can be set up on a Mac print server and shared across a
network - e.g. run on an iMac. So can the Imation RIP, but not
PressReady.
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Henrik Holmegaard
TechWrite, Denmark