The final result in print between Euroscale and SWOP
The final result in print between Euroscale and SWOP
- Subject: The final result in print between Euroscale and SWOP
- From: Christopher Lund <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 08:07:01 +0000
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neil snape <email@hidden> wrote:
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Many, many prepress houses here in Europe scan in on SWOP coated stock even
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if the destination printer is Eurocoated. Problem of education possibly.
These are pure basics, a pro photographer would not last long not knowing
the diffrence between diffrent processes...
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Then their proofers are set up to SWOP. Not a good idea. Then if you send
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them a correctly separated file, say in Euro V2 they'll proof it incorrectly
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compared to a system that is calibrated to realistic Euroscale. Very
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confusing for clients signing off on SWOP proofs going to lwc papers at the
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moment by prepress houses who have yet to see the suggested changes by the
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leading image application producers.
This is exactly my problem, handing off anything else than SWOP based
separation gives proofs that look like s**t. But what do you do when you
face this? Do you indeed seperate using the SWOP setup, or do you try to
explain to the printers that its the proof thats off since you seperated
(correctly) for the Euroscale standard and their proof it set up for SWOP?
(good luck with that one :-)) It is indeed confusing when you have handed
out many Euroscale files that have not been proofed - and they turn out fine
printed - and then face these problems when you need that extra security and
order a proof first!!
And that advice everybody gives you: "Ask your printer" - yeah sure....
best regards
Christopher