Re: ProfilerPro: still a good choice?
Re: ProfilerPro: still a good choice?
- Subject: Re: ProfilerPro: still a good choice?
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 07:07:51 -0600
on 8/31/01 3:30 AM, Paul Schilliger at email@hidden wrote:
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I am novice in color
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management, and I don't know what is meant by "CMYK printing". Some
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thermosublimation printers are CMYK. But for instance, when I print a
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CMYK file on my Epson, is this CMYK printing, or does the printer turn
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the data into RGB prior printing?
You can do it either way. In an ideal world, you'd send CMYK to the Epson
through a RIP of some kind as the Epson Quickdraw driver (all Quickdraw
drivers) don't support CMYK directly. The advantage would be you could
control black generation and the printer from the ink level. The downside is
you have to deal with a RIP which is a pain.
You can also send RGB to the printer and what you would need to do is
profile the printer as an RGB device, then do a CMYK to RGB conversion and
print. I've produce pretty decent simulations this way and I get to avoid
CMYK profiles and RIPs but again, you don't have all the control like
dealing with CMYK directly.
If you are doing occasional proofing this way or the accuracy doesn't have
to be dead on (or you just don't want to mess with CMYK profiles and RIPs),
try making an RGB output profile and doing a CMYK to RGB conversion and
sending that to your Epson.
Andrew Rodney