Re: Rendering intent in Linocolor
Re: Rendering intent in Linocolor
- Subject: Re: Rendering intent in Linocolor
- From: neil snape <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 18:20:15 +0100
on 2/9/2001 16:23, Thomas Holm / Pixl ApS at email@hidden wrote:
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I just experienced a peculiar thing with Linocolor...
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I've generated a Newsprint profile, and have tweaked the CMYK to Lab part of
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the profile (the Colorimetric rendering intent), to be able to make a more
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accurate softproof in the scanner.
LinoColor 6 only modifies the forward perceptual rendering.
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Then I set out to scan an image in Linocolor, and set it to simulate (and
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output) in CMYK. But when I do a prescan in Linocolor I can't detect any
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change in the preview. On the final scan everything looks just fine though.
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Then I made a different edit to a copy of the profile on the Perceptual
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rendering intent, and now the prescan was fine, but the final scan was
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without the visual tweak.
Curious as the edit's performed in Linocolor have always worked correctly.
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So the conclusion to this is that Linocolor must use perceptual rendering
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intent (cmyk to monitor) for prescans, and Colorimetric for final scans.
The mapping to the monitor should be colorimetric me thinks.
Do you have proof media white point selected?
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