RE: Rip solutions? (: ECI guidelines on late binding)
RE: Rip solutions? (: ECI guidelines on late binding)
- Subject: RE: Rip solutions? (: ECI guidelines on late binding)
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 08:48:45 +0200
Darrin Southern <email@hidden> wrote:
I am interested in the raster and vector elements theory, as isn't the goal
of these rips to simulate the output of another device (analog proof or
printing method) and not to get the 'best' poster output from the file ?
Try downloading the ECI guidelines from
http://www.eci.org.
The guidelines speak of the 'idealized proof' meaning the studio
presentatin print, and the 'contract proof'.
In a scan once output many, late binding workflow you don't know
which of many possible output processes your digital original will
run under.
Therefore, your goal is to max the gamut of the studio monitor and
the studio presentation printer. Of these two, the studio
presentation print travels and the studio display fades when you
switch off the monitor after work.
As the studio presentation print is the largest 'portable, shareable
gamut' you've got, that gamut is also the basis of agreements on
color correction. This is what is meant by an 'idealized proof',
meaning the closest representation you've got of the full range of
colors in the digital original.
By definition your studio presentation printer must be set up with
the highest gamut available. This gamut must also by definition be
larger than the largest mass production gamut your studio
presentation printer is required to simulate 1:1 colorimetrically in
the contract proof.
IOW the best poster print is actually what you sell your client in a
late binding workflow. Then it's up to your client how to repurpose
the digital original.
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Henrik Holmegaard
TechWrite, Denmark