Re: Reading a Profile
Re: Reading a Profile
- Subject: Re: Reading a Profile
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 12:30:23 EDT
In a message dated 6/8/01 8:28:10 PM, email@hidden writes:
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Hmmm, some of that, like Total Ink Limits, Black Ink Limit, Black Ink
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Start, though not dot gain, are often contained in the Secret Sauce,
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no?
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And though Colorthink won't allow you to see these, most RIPs do.
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Many allow you to adjust these values as well.
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Its rather questionable just how RIPs affect these. They may simply set
limits and not let data that the profile sends which exceeds those limits to
be printed. This can be handy if you want to avoid ink dripping of your
paper, but frustrating if you want a given ink combination and the RIP thinks
it knows better and simply won't print it. Otherwise the only method they
have to control outside CMYK profiles is to do a CMYK>CMYK conversion from
that profile to one of their own, which again, can be a mixed blessing,
replacing all black generation and ink data with new, unrelated ones. Having
a standard for all these specs right in the ICC header would indeed be
useful, but until its standards based, its a bit dangerous to assume RIPs
handle this data in a consistant manner.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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