More Blues & Purples...
More Blues & Purples...
- Subject: More Blues & Purples...
- From: Gary Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 18:40:04 -0600
Hello to all color gurus, I have a situation similar to the Blues &
Purples topics I found in the archives. Of course my situation is a
little different : )
I have and Epson 1280 driven by Best Designer Edition for pre-press
work and I use the Epson driver for my RGB Photoshop file photo
prints. I also have a client with an Epson 5000 with the Fiery
RipStation (yuck!). I'm working on them changing to Best ColorProof.
When I first noticed blues turning purple I was printing RGB
Photoshop files through the RGB Epson driver. I thought there was
something wrong with the print profiles, especially after following
the thread a couple of months ago. I use custom profiles created with
CompassProfile 2.5.x. I saw in the earlier threads that ProfileMaker
would make better profiles, but I can't fork out the cash after
investing in CompassProfile. I let it the problem go as I was overall
extremely satisfied with the system and this was not that big of a
deal.
Then I started working with placed CMYK Photoshop files and spot
colors in Illustrator, InDesign and Quark. Again, blues would turn
purple. However, when I use the eyedropper in Photoshop and/or pick a
spot color in layout software with similar CMYK values, I see that it
is not the print profiles that are turning the blues purple but
rather the displays are not rendering the blues purple enough (in the
Color Management savvy Adobe software). When I pick a PMS color with
similar CMYK values to the CMYK values in the Photoshop images, they
print the same and compare very satisfactorily to the PMS guides. If
I load the display profile in the Soft Proofing and turn on the Gamut
Warning the blues & purples are indicated to be within the display
gamut.
All 21" displays are either Sony GDM F500-R, GDM-F520R or Mitsubishi
Diamondtrons. I used CompassProfile Monitor 2.5.5 and calibrated all
displays to 6500K 2.2 or 6500K 1.8.
To sum it up I think the problem is not with the print profiles but
with the display profiles. Would a different display profiling
package do a better job of this? Is this kind of par for the course?
Any suggestions will be very much appreciated!
Gary Smith
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