Monaco Profiler Question
Monaco Profiler Question
- Subject: Monaco Profiler Question
- From: Dan Goodenow <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 16:30:41 -0500
I have used Monaco Profiler with pretty good success for a number of
different profiling needs but there is one thing about it that continues to
bother me. Can anyone shed any light on the 3/C generation it produces in
regards to what I'll cal "reversal" for lack of a better term. What I am
speaking of is the fact that as the black printer comes up the CMY curves
don't just plateau, the actually reverse and then kick up sharply again at
the tail end. You can test this by converting a Lab step wedge or viewing
the profile in various editors (I've been using the "neutral" viewer in
"iccProfile Viewer", which by the way, is a very nice piece of software in
my opinion). It may be correct from a visual reproduction point of view, but
it creates separations that make traditional CMYK retouchers (please no soap
boxes about the advantages of retouching in other color spaces!) go nuts as
well as pressman. I've tried all the different kinds of black generation,
but they all exhibit the same characteristics to some degree or another. Am
I missing something here? It's not a function of the devices ability to pile
down the color - I'm profiling Kodak Approvals and conventional MatchPrints.
Dan Goodenow
Digital 66
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