Re: Xerox 7700 Profiling
Re: Xerox 7700 Profiling
- Subject: Re: Xerox 7700 Profiling
- From: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:02:49 -0700
Roger Breton <email@hidden>
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No custom
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profile can't be donwloaded permanently in any printer's memory (Xerox or
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other desktop lasers) if that's what you have in mind.
The PhaserMatch software takes two ICC profiles and converts a simulation
(e.g. press) profile into a PostScript CRD, and the Xerox profile into a
PostScript CSA. If it's the same software I had to use a year or so ago,
it creates a new PPD file containing these profiles, and uploads them to
the RIP with every single print job. The RIP then receives press ready
CMYK from your application, and does an in-RIP conversion from pressCMYK
to XeroxCMYK and you get a proof.
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The way you go about
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this is you create your custom profile with Monaco and use them within
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Photoshop or InDesign or Illustrator to color manage your documents.
The above method I'm describing is better because neither InDesign nor
QuarkXPress can produce complete proofs of all content unless you go with
only TIFFs and PICT (and maybe JPEG). EPS's do not get color managed. So
if you want everything processed, you would need something that can parse
PostScript - either a color server in between the workstation and the
RIP, or do it in the RIP. The PhaserMatch software lets you do it in the
RIP, but if forces you to use a marginal at best profile build with
PhaserMatch. It will not let you use an ICC profile made with a 3rd party
package.
In my opinion, Xerox needs to be publically flogged, should feel
embarassed and humiliated for allowing software like PhaserMatch to
continue to pervert the ICC concept. It's bad software. It's bad for
users. It's bad for the industry. It's even bad for them, and they've
been told this, but apparently they don't care enough to change this.
Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (tm)
Boulder, CO
303-415-9932