RE: Colour workflow and management
RE: Colour workflow and management
- Subject: RE: Colour workflow and management
- From: "Broudy, David" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 11:47:22 -0500
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From: Henrik Holmegaard [mailto:email@hidden]
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Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 12:31 AM
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To: email@hidden
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Subject: Re: Colour workflow and management
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>Do we rely on RIPs to convert
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>RGB to CMYK?
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Never ever do this. Even the Adobe manuals now admit that you won't
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get the same result from any two RIPs.
never say never. for critical color work of course you'd want to separate it
yourself and apply any necessary edits. for uncritical color of the
"pleasing" variety, an accurate separation setup and in-RIP seps or a
pre-RIP separation server are perfectly acceptable if the incoming images
are any good. the decision rests on your market; I would not do this for
high-end work e.g. yuppie car brochures, annual reports etc. but for many
markets the results from automated seps are good enough. in some markets
(mine, at least) the sheer volume of work precludes much else.
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David Broudy, Senior Engineer
Jostens Digital Imaging R&D
Burnsville, Minnesota (yep)
952.882.3617