Re: SOFTWARE FOR ICC PROFILES?
Re: SOFTWARE FOR ICC PROFILES?
- Subject: Re: SOFTWARE FOR ICC PROFILES?
- From: neil snape <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 08:16:06 +0200
Kellie Kulton wrote:
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What we found was that Monaco and Printopen gave the best results, with Monaco
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having problems flattening out the subtleties in skin tones, and Printopen
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printing slightly too light overall. Praxisoft had a primitive black
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generation which resulted in totally plugged up blacks and did some strange
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things to the blues-plugging up and turning the darker tones red,(all in CMYK
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conversions) but gave very nice RGB profiles.
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We have decided to continue with printopen for the time being but are curious
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if anyone else has run such tests and the results?
The testing part is ongoing . It never stops and with the changes in
applications there are undocumented improvements that are discovered only by
testing. I'd say that your findings are valid and important. Skin tones are
the main area of profiling that many older packages don't handle well
(pastels and watercolour etc). I know PrintOpen the best of the above and
would say that PO doesn't map yellows out to rgb profiles to an acceptable
density. Fairly easy to edit the profile though and extend the yellow.
Question though of rendering intent. Have you tried relative rendering with
the PO rgb profiles? Check out Henrik Holmegaard's excellent writings on
PrintOpen and ICC aspects concerning workflows involving Heidelberg hard and
soft. iccabc.com You use a S3900 don't you?
Praxisoft is very good at rgb. Very neutral and lineal profiles probably
great for dye subs. Haven't tried the latest (V4) so again there are
probably some improvements. If Robert Eversole sends me a demo I'll test it
for you.
The mapping with Blackpoint compensation plays a lot into the conversions
and going to rgb devices this will show too. It's just that Adobe hasn't
made public the ACE so you have to stay within Adobe products to use their
CMM with bpc for conversions. This seems to work the best (for me but let's
invite others opinions).
BTW Heidelberg have released Newcolor 7000V2 for the high end scanners. This
is the most powerful scanning application that exists. If I had a Heidelberg
drum I'd jump onto this even though it's only PC.
Neil Snape email@hidden
http://mapage.noos.fr/nsnape