Subject: Hexachrome and ICC profiles
Subject: Hexachrome and ICC profiles
- Subject: Subject: Hexachrome and ICC profiles
- From: Marc Levine <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 23:27:42 -0500
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Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 10:11:05 -0800
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Subject: colorsync-users digest, Vol 3 #537 - 19 msgs
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From: Stefan Fiedler <email@hidden>
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Subject: Hexachrome and ICC profiles
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Is it correct that ICC profiles cannot properly describe Hexachrome
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(CMYKOG) inks? If so, how do the current "Hexachrome savvy"
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applications (ColorBlind, Profilemaker,...?) solve this problem?
Stefan,
I don't think it IS correct to say that ICC applications cannot characterize
hex. I believe that Gretag can characterize it and I KNOW that Monaco can do
it. Here's a little ditty about how MonacoPROFILER deals with multi-channel
profiles, including hex.
MonacoPROFILER handles up to 8 different color right out of the box. The
application has default hex settings as well as fully-customizable color
definitions. When building the profile, the user can control all 3
components of how additional inks are used
1-Lightness behavior. Much like black generation, MonacoPROFILER allows you
to define where in its own color ramp that the spot will be introduced and
how it will behave as the color develops to full density. Also, the user can
fully customize the behavior curve by adding/moving anchor points
2-Color Range - Saturation. This allows users to control not only how
additional inks will be used in saturated areas, but how aggressively into
less saturated areas the user would like the spot color to be introduced.
3-Color Range - Hue. This allows users to adjust the range of hues that will
use a spot color. For example, green can be restricted to the reproduction
of Greens in the same hue of the ink, or can be used more liberally into
bluish-greens and yellowish greens.
Basically, there's 2 schools of thought. One says "use spot colors only to
achieve colors that are outside the process gamut". The other says "use the
spot color anywhere you can, effectively replacing process components
whenever possible". MonacoPROFILER gives you the ability to go to either
extreme, or to target a specific behavior somewhere in between.
Whew!
-Marc
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Marc Levine
North American Sales Manager
Technical Sales Engineer
Monaco Systems
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www.monacosys.com
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