New Adobe profiles ( was: PrintOpen profiles)
New Adobe profiles ( was: PrintOpen profiles)
- Subject: New Adobe profiles ( was: PrintOpen profiles)
- From: Bernard Furnival <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 19:09:11 -0400
Bruce at email@hidden wrote
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Lab gradients aside, don't confuse these profiles with the (dreadful)
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profiles of the same name that shipped with PressReady. These ones
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roundtrip beautifully with all rendering intents, and were handbuilt
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by Thomas Knoll (THE Photoshop engineer) from very robust data sets.
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(The Euroscale profiles were created from the FOGRA data sets.)
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Bruce
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Considering the market dominance of Adobe does anyone else think these new
PS 6 profiles will become de facto standards, allowing content creators to
use them as unofficial printing standards for overseas printing like we use
SWOP for domestic magazines?
Predictable color from digital files without having to calibrate to a
specific printing plant is in my opinion the real missing link in color
management. Without it we are just making homemade versions of the
traditional closed loop systems, extending them to our desktop systems.
Are printers ever going to start using icc tagged RGB files effectively? Is
direct to plate printing going to reduce or eliminate regional variations
(pos/neg plates etc) in CMYK printing allowing use of a more standardized
CMYK? Can Bill Gates and Corbis establish standards for digital delivery or
is the richest man in the world helpless in the face of printing industry
inertia?
Comments, theories and wild speculations invited.
Bernard Furnival