re: Profiles and Black generation
re: Profiles and Black generation
- Subject: re: Profiles and Black generation
- From: Dan Reid <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:58:23 -0600
On Sat, 19 May 2001 10:23:16 -0400, email@hidden (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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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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Is this normal for a profiling software to do this?
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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.
Colorflow is building GCR profiles. I haven't looked at ColorFlow recently
but you want to use UCR so black does not contaminate your highlights and
1/4 tones. GCR is useful for counteracting neutrality problems with
mismatched ink sets.
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Dan B. Reid
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