Re: SWOP coated and Sheetfed coated-v2
Re: SWOP coated and Sheetfed coated-v2
- Subject: Re: SWOP coated and Sheetfed coated-v2
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 07:44:59 -0500
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I agree - MUCH more needs to be known about the common profiles that many
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people blindly use. Not all of us have access to profile editing/viewing
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gear so it is great that Bruce Lindbloom has offered his help with the dot
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gain calculator/s and other tools. Thanks Bruce.
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Stephen Marsh.
Wholeheartedly agree with you, Stephen. We need more information to be able
to make competent use of those canned profiles. That's why I like standards.
Yes, they are decided by committees and are arrived at after much pain and
arguing, but they have the merit of being "documented" to death. The only
problem is that they tend to become expensive. The ISO standards, for
example, all revolve around the magic number of $125! But at least, they're
clear and exhaustively documented. Take the TR-001 "SWOP" report :
everything is known about this, it even comes with the colorimetric data on
diskette in an IT8.7/2 format, ready for profile generation in ProfileMaker,
FujiColourKit, PrintOpen, MonacoProfiler and others. So it's an effective
starting point for anyone. And it sure is, in my view, the most common
denominator of offset printing in the US that can be relied on for ICC work.
Let's keep an eye on GraCol's upcoming US Sheetfed colorimetric standard.
It's in the hands of CGATS now. That promises to do for sheetfed what TR-001
has done for WebOffset.
Roger Breton
Laval, Canada
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