RE: colour management at digital/quick print shops
RE: colour management at digital/quick print shops
- Subject: RE: colour management at digital/quick print shops
- From: Scott Olswold <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 09:39:24 -0400
Greg Nuckolls wrote:
"As some members of this list know all too well, Fiery does not
support workstation-based color management."
Greg,
I'm going to have to dispute you on this one. Current EfI Fiery software
(Z4, ColorPASS Z and newly-announced models) will indeed support a
workstation-based color managed workflow. And I can use a tool called
ColorWise Pro Tools to take custom curves and extract them as ICC-compliant
profiles for use in both Macintosh and Windows (and even Solaris)
workstations.
The profiles that I've generated from the new ColorWise 2.0 boxes support
all 4 rendering intents very well. I teach an advanced color techniques
class for our Field Support and Sales forces and in this class we take the
color control from the Fiery and place it on the desktop. From the desktop
we emulate ColorWise using software like Photoshop and InDesign, and we also
build custom profiles and download them to the Fiery as simulation profiles
(and thus take color back to the Fiery, but simulating other output
devices). I've helped most of our customers move into a workstation-managed
color set up because I've found that it's more predictable (btw, I've even
managed to workstation color-manage to an old Fiery 200i attached to a Kodak
ColorEdge 1550+). The one thing that must happen at the Fiery is to set the
CMYK Simulation to None unless you really want to hose your color data.
Now, we don't sell or support the EX2000, so I don't know its functionality,
but if I remember correctly it came out at about the same time as the
ColorPASS Z90 so it may have the ColorWise 2.0 software.
Scott Olswold
Senior Systems Support Engineer
Danka Office Imaging
MCSE, CNA 5, A+, Network+, Adobe Certified Expert (PageMaker and Photoshop)