Re: white point editing
Re: white point editing
- Subject: Re: white point editing
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 11:14:00 +0100
"publix team" <email@hidden> wrote:
I find the measured whitepoints in printer profiles always are too dark for
soft proofing and print proofing. I use a lab swatch to compare the white on
the screen to the paper and edit the profiles white point. Softproofing works
very good then in AbsCol.
I wonder if there is an argument against this procedure.
The screen has more than one white reference in your field of view.
There is the color managed white in ICC-enabled application software,
and there is the maximum screen white in desktop icons, window
rulers, window scroll bars and so forth.
Your eye will see the color managed white of the paper as wrong on
the monitor, if there is a brighter white in the field of view. And
there is always a brighter white in the field of view on the monitor,
unless you take special but simple precautions. For serious
soft-proofing, maximize the image window, use an 82% gray canvas
background in the window, and place a black card frame over the
window to eliminate other white references in the field of view.
Or simpler still: Trust your instrument and not your eyes when it
comes to judging the color of white.
Plus I am wondering if in the Proofing procedure it would then also make sense
to alter the destination profile. Right now I only edit the
reference profile cause
that is all I need for softproofing.
Never ever edit the output / simulation profile, or the printing
house is not contractually obliged. Only ever edit your destination
profile i.e. the profile for your own studio proof printer.