Re: costom profile with all K shadows?
Re: costom profile with all K shadows?
- Subject: Re: costom profile with all K shadows?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 09:10:55 EST
In a message dated 2/21/02 3:07:14 AM, email@hidden
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I would like to know if it is possible to create a CMYK profile that
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would leave all K blacks only K no CMY or does the nature of profiling
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forbid this. I understand that profiling converts images to LAB than to
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CMYK or RGB but I have to ask if this is possible. What I am trying to
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do is create a profile for my printer so that it can maintain all K
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shadows and text. I'm using praxisoft compass profile and an Xrite DTP
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4100UV.
Thats not the profile's job, that is PostScript's job. PostScript
distinguishes between images and vector elements like text. If you build a
profile with K only black, it will effect your image tone as well, and on
many presses will result in dark colors that are darker than the black areas.
Drop shadows are even more problematic; to make them K only means eliminating
all CM&Y components from neutral tones if it is done at the profile level,
which can have assorted unintended effects, such as increased graininess.
So the question isn't "can you do this?" but rather "should you do this?"...
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
email@hidden
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