Re: Using an Epson 1270 for pre-press proofing
Re: Using an Epson 1270 for pre-press proofing
- Subject: Re: Using an Epson 1270 for pre-press proofing
- From: neil snape <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 21:50:20 +0200
on 6/09/2001 20:52, Bob Smith at email@hidden wrote:
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Get a copy of PressReady. It does exactly what you're asking for right out
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of the box. Yes, its a dead end product and it has some minor bugs but its
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specifically designed to do what you ask and it does it quite well with
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little fuss. As Bruce described, there are good ways to do this without
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resorting to additional software but in my experience, that method won't be
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as close as stock PressReady unless you use custom profiles. If you have or
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can get good custom profiles go for it; otherwise the simple and probably
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plenty adequate solution is PressReady.
Good advice as well. I've had PressReady since it's conception. It's very
fast Adobe Postscript 3, and few if any bugs in mine! The Dithering is
almost exactly that of the Epson native driver, very fluid, truly
photographic. Yet in colorimetry the problems of mapping relative without
BPC can create some pretty ugly shadow clipping and reversal in dark tones
such as deep dark green. I can see why the recent debate on rgb/rgb proofing
rgb>cmyk>rgb or Postscript or Postscript device debate arouse. Since you
can't proof as you'd like to (no ink limiting / bpc / rendering intents)
then for all it's worth, practical advice from Bruce Fraser on backwards
proofing thru to rgb makes perfect sense.
I did some testing with pre-converting images in PressReady using
absolute and found the results too far off compared to the real printed page
(s). The paper white with profiles from Gretag PM where too blue and
Heidelberg PO too yellow. Maybe that's changed now with the recent versions
respective profiles and combinations there of CMM's.
Neil Snape email@hidden
http://mapage.noos.fr/nsnape