Color server strategies
Color server strategies
- Subject: Color server strategies
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 08:29:23 +0100
Getting page layout, bitmap, and vector apps to print
the same is real difficult but not impossible. This is why most designers
and printers don't bother with color management because of the color
communication issues from program to program. Look towards Praxisoft for
their CompassPro XT plug-in or Autoflow workflow software. GretagMacBeth
also has some great workflow apps too. (BatchMatcher or iQue)
Yup, use a color server.
a. Use the color server in precision mode by normalizing all color
blind and color managed data to the *same* source space before it is
placed in the layout. This is done by setting up a hotfolder with ICC
match-and-move functionality - one hotfolder per project /
destination media.
b. Still in precision mode, you now know the source color space of
all objects in the PostScript file. PostScript doesn't support ICC
profiles, so you assign the source space in the server that was used
to normalize the color spaces for the layout (assuming the Quark CMS
is deactivated). Then you cross-render for proofing on the fly in the
color server, and store the incoming PostScript on disk until the
proof is accepted. Then you image the PostScript, and job done.
c. Use the color server in default mode when accepting files in
native format from outside sources. Set the color server filters to
automatically assign assumed source profiles and apply embedded
profiles, if available. This lets you color manage the PostScript.
Using a color server in precision mode with a project hotfolder
accessed across the network is also a good way of building PDF 1.3
from Distiller 4.0.5.
In the big scheme of things, BatchMatcher and BatchMatcherPS are not
able to support spooling (like LogoProof does) let alone PDF.
CompassPro XT is tied to Quark. iQueue 140 with PDF support - along
with Autoflow and the new Telegraphique color server neither of which
I know much about - are the tools to watch.
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Henrik Holmegaard
TechWrite, Denmark