Re: Desktop proofing with ink jets
Re: Desktop proofing with ink jets
- Subject: Re: Desktop proofing with ink jets
- From: Darrin Southern <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 17:48:33 +1100
At 12:17 PM -0700 1/31/02, Andrew's New Year cheer wore off :
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> I need a reality check after spending a good part of the day working with a
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> few Mac products that are supposed to allow someone to take a desktop
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> printer (in my case an Epson 1270) and simulate a contract proof.
At 7:20 AM -0700 01/02/02, Sir Bruce declared it folklaw that :
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I've yet to see a RIP that gives equally good screening and better
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color matching than simply doing Absco rendering of CMYK out of
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Photoshop to the QD driver. But I live in hope...
No one would disagree that the methods used by the experts on this list are
getting the desired results, it's just the rest of the market are not up to
speed with the icc conversion method's used within PhotoShop.
For the record, I recommend Bruce's Real World PhotoShop 6 book as a
starting place for those who are interested in color management, and those
who attended Andrew's seminars here in Australia were suitably impressed.
My personal gripe with the 'Digital Proofer' market is the fact that the ink
on paper combinations of most of the brands do not give stable result.
Profiling these beasts is like hitting a moving target.
Try explaining to a client that they can print a job, but after around 48
hours the print needs to be thrown out, as the color has shifted due to
dryback, and they should print it again.
The other method is to tell them to print the job, but then don't look at
for 48 hours, when the color has stabilized . . .
Let's not forget the eternal "To UV or not UV" filter debate,
Darrin.