Re: Profiles and Black generation
Re: Profiles and Black generation
- Subject: Re: Profiles and Black generation
- From: Thomas Holm / Pixl <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 12:30:42 +0200
Lee Blevins wrote:
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We are getting a very long black separation when using profiles
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generated by Kodak Colorflow.
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You need to adjust your separation values to accommodate the type of
printing/printer. We're talking about Total Inklimit, maximum amount of
Black, Black start, black curve (light, medium, heavy nor custom), and
UCR/GCR settings.
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Black goes all the way to the highlight. We see a 1% black in even very
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light tones.
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Simply change the black start to a larger percentage. ColorFlow gives you
all the necessary controls, you simply have to click on Custom CMYK, before
building the profile.
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Is this normal for a profiling software to do this?
No, this is rarely useful, but in special cases it's useful.
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I can try redoing the profile with an adjustment but what is surprising
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me is that the software would default to such an odd way of working.
Oh, you mean like Photoshop's default settings is to use sRGB and no
Colormanagement? <G>
Best
Thomas Holm / Pixl ApS
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