Re: PROFILING WITH COLORTRON
Re: PROFILING WITH COLORTRON
- Subject: Re: PROFILING WITH COLORTRON
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 21:04:22 EDT
In a message dated 5/28/01 11:21:46 AM, email@hidden writes:
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I have a Colortron II that I bought about three years ago. Until now, I
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used
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it mostly for calibrating my monitor; in your experience, is it a reliable
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instrument for this purpose?
Its slow, and not up to the standards of even low cost current devices, but
it makes better monitor profiles than visual profiling methods...
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According to X-RITE literature, it can be used for making printing profiles
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with Photoshop, said to ''produce dramatic improvements over canned
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profiles, default (generic) CMYK profiles ... or Phoroshop's default
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built-in separation tables''. What do you think about it?
This is a hack to build inks setup based CMYK profiles only, so you need a
RIP or PostScript device to use them. They are based on the theoretical
responses of a CMYK printing press, and as the device you are profiling moves
further from that theory, so will your profile reflect it less effectively.
But many acceptable proflies were built using this or similar methods.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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