Re: Creating Separations for Dai Nippon
Re: Creating Separations for Dai Nippon
- Subject: Re: Creating Separations for Dai Nippon
- From: Terry Wyse <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:57:22 -0400
on 6/21/02 7:44 AM, John wrote:
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Rick
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I understand yours, and everyone else's dilemma about wanting to "see" on
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your monitor as close as is possible to the end product result. We too would
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love it... but you just can't. You can get to the ballpark fairly easily...
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but getting on base is tough, and you will never get to home. I've got tried
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every type of monitor you could find from 23" Barco Calibratiors and on
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down. We used to love the Trinitrons until we found we really couldn't tell
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the difference between any of them to a $600 View Sonic. We rely on the pure
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by-the-numbers approach for color evaluation.... any verify that to us, and
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our customers with a profiled $35 Epson 10M proof. The "high rollers" pay
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for the $300 Kodak Approvals. They match real close, and I can match either
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one on press.
Hi John, I've appreciated your honesty regarding the realities of printing.
This list can tend to get a bit "out there" as far as how things SHOULD be
done in theory vs. what's practical in the real world.
I'd like to comment on your monitor "soft-proofing" remarks. As you know and
stated, it's less about what monitor you use vs. what device and software
you use to calibrate and profile your displays. You made no mention of what
you were using for calibrating/profiling your displays.
To use your baseball analogy, I'd say given the right software and measuring
instrument (I'm favoring spectros these days as opposed to colorimeters -
tomorrow I could change my mind!) it's easy to get on second base. In fact,
although you may not be able to get to home plate, I've seen cases where
I've rounded third base!
I definitely respect the by-the-numbers approach but don't rule out the
possibility that given a decent monitor (not measured in $$ necessarily) and
an excellent profiling solution that you can't achieve a very good soft
proof. In fact, I would go so far as to say if you're NOT spending close to
1/2 to 3/4 of the cost of your display on a good instrument/software
combination, then your results will likely reflect this (emit this?) ;-)
Cheers,
Terry
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Terence L. Wyse
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All Systems Integration, Inc.
http://www.allsystems.com
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