Re: Colour workflow and management
Re: Colour workflow and management
- Subject: Re: Colour workflow and management
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 15:20:16 -0600
on 5/8/01 2:40 PM, Malcolm Lochhead at email@hidden wrote:
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What pitfalls are we likely to encounter?
Impossible to say since every workflow is different. Every company has
different pieces of equipment that may or may not allow for effective
profiling (or more accurately, the ability to deal with profiles directly).
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What tools do we need to set up
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profiles for monitors, printers and scanners?
Some good software and a Spectrophotometer for building output profiles.
Depending on the hardware you get here, you may have to get an additional
piece of equipment for the displays (usually but not always a colorimeter).
Some spectro's do double duty. You'll need some targets to scan for building
profiles (an IT8). Most of the better (more expensive) packages ship with
these targets.
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How is Color management
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handled downstream in the prepress process? Do we rely on RIPs to convert
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RGB to CMYK?
Again, it all depends on your workflow. You can do in RIP conversions. You
can use software batch processing tools to do this all for you
automatically. You may want to do this on an image by image basis in
Photoshop. Can you work in such a way that you don't see what the results of
the conversions are? Do you intend to edit the files once in output space?
Do you have such a volume of files that the only answer is batch processing
or in RIP conversions? All up to you.
Andrew Rodney