Re: Profile Editing
Re: Profile Editing
- Subject: Re: Profile Editing
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:27:07 +0100
In the US it is not a universal given that the Perceptual intent is being
used for printing and the Colorimetric only for proofing.... Thats what that
disclaimer about Heidelberg was all about... <G>
If you hop aboard something like the four drum robot Primescan and
start churning out scans to the tune of several hundred a day, then
the notion of manually correcting each image to bring the colors into
gamut becomes a brave but uninteresting gesture.
So you start figuring out what color corrections separators usually
make and build that into the production press profile.
It's no different than type design. Sure, I can manually kern every
line on every page, but I'd go crazy doing it. There's nothing
practical about fonts with missing pair kerning. As the type
designers say, if your font doesn't kern well right out of the box,
buy another font.
Then a step further along this road, you can get matching color with
color management, but you can't get good color. So you look to build
color corrections into the software that runs on top of the device
color management. If you know the colorimetry of the devices in your
workflow, and you know what's on the drum or platen, then it's time
to start talking to old timers in the color separation and printing
industry and figuring out algorithms that express their practices.
There's nothing wrong with automation, if you know what you're doing
and your workflow is subject to process control. We'd never buy a
font unless the type designer had built pair kerning into it.
The difference between a high-end scanning system with repro
enhancements and a low-end scanning system with same is that in the
first case you're supposed to have a color managed workflow and a
large surface to the printing community, and in the second it's
supposed to work by divine intervention without calibrated and
characterized devices or ink in your veins.
Thought I'd get by without enlarging, but no dice ... -:)