Re: Closed loop color management and non-ColorSync bureau
Re: Closed loop color management and non-ColorSync bureau
- Subject: Re: Closed loop color management and non-ColorSync bureau
- From: "Walter Zacharias" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 08:30:27 -0500
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... have them print a target and then
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use a profiling software to create an output profile in which I would
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convert the files prior sending. ... I ... did exactly that. It worked fine.
How about the converse? We are a book manufacturer with a full prepress looking at using icc colour management in order to help us deal with customer (service bureau) supplied scans and proofs.
Only one of our customers uses ICC profiles but they have tuned their system to our output and all contract proofs are generated at our site. The service bureaus that give us most grief are those that also do their own proofing. Would it be logical to expect this workflow to be effective?
Service bureau scans and proofs the images.
We ask them to image a target on the same proofer.
We generate an ICC profile for the proofer used.
Then use this profile to "colour correct" the CMYK files supplied in order to be able to better match their supplied proofs?
Any advice would be appreciated.
PS. My reason for this approach is that it seems much more manageable than a) convincing all the service bureaus that send us files to implement ICC colour management, b) send them our output profile c) maintain that profile after its distribution (updates, new versions, etc.)
Walter Zacharias
Prepress System Admin.
Friesens Corporation
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I speak from, not for Friesens.
"Of making many books there is no end"
Ecclesiastes 12:12
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>> Igor Asselbergs <email@hidden> 09/04/01 03:46AM >>>
Paul Schilliger wrote
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But neither of my service bureau for
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pre-press and lab for Laser prints use ColorSync (they use closed loop
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calibration). I first thought I could have them print a target and then
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use a profiling software to create an output profile in which I would
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convert the files prior sending. But this seems nonsense....
Why does it seem nonsense? before I had my own output facilities I used
service bureaus and did exactly that. It worked fine.
In fact it worked so well that one of the service bureaus actually decided
to switch to an icc workflow.
Igor Asselbergs
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