Re: Color Sync set up
Re: Color Sync set up
- Subject: Re: Color Sync set up
- From: Stephen Clark <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:20:22 -0500
On Wednesday, July 31, 2002, at 01:35 PM, Harte Robba wrote:
I have just purchased a Mitsubishi DiamondPro 2060u monitor. The color
on this monitor is outstanding.
The monitor came with a color profile. I need to take the CMYK scanned
images from my service bureau to go from my monitor (where the color
looks right on) into InDesign/Pagemaker and proof to my Epson 3000
printer. I am having problems with getting the printer to look like my
work on the monitor.
Furthermore, I am not sure what color space I should use when I bring
in the scanned images into Photoshop 7 wand when I export, how to get
these devices all to give me a WYSIWYG regarding color.
The more I play with the settings the more I seem to mess it up.
Don't feel like you're all alone in that. You've found one of the better
places available to ask questions & get information.
That your 2060u arrived with "a profile' shouldn't lead you to believe
that the profile you have is one that will work for you.
Not only does the profile have to take into account what the three color
guns in your tube are doing (with respect to each other and the
phosphors in the screen that create the colored light you see) but also
how you have the monitor set up in terms of brightness, contrast, &
whitepoint selection. Fortunately the 2060u allows control of these
variables to a much greater degree than less impressive monitors (which
may cost more money) but unfortunately you need additional hardware (a
calibration device) and software (to make the device work and to write
the resulting profile) to use the controls properly. You also need to
pay attention to the room lighting in which you'll be doing this kind of
comparison.
Beyond that it becomes a question of: do you have a profile for your
3000 that describes how IT renders the information your page layout apps
provide? You'll need that as well to complete the system that can - if
properly set up and managed - enable you to get very close to what you
see on your 2060u reproduced from your 3000.
For Photoshop's use you'd also need a profile that describes how your
service bureau arrived at the particular CMYK numbers for the files they
hand you, because if you're printing to a 3000 - without using a
Postscript CMYK RIP to create what the 3000 prints from - you're
actually asking Photoshop + InDesign / Pagemaker to reconvert your nice
CMYK files to RGB that the Epson 3000 printer driver can understand &
interpret; NONE of the native, factory Epson printers' drivers send CMYK
data to the print engine. You'd be better off asking for RGB files &
converting those - after editing & color correction - to CMYK for
whatever purpose they're intended for, as long as you can get meaningful
information about HOW the CMYK needs to be derived, whether thru
profiles or other methods proven workable before.
Hope this helps - it's not as easy yet as it SHOULD be, but things have
improved a lot in the past few years, believe me.
Steve Clark
Chicago
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