Re: Straightening Out the Shop
Re: Straightening Out the Shop
- Subject: Re: Straightening Out the Shop
- From: email@hidden (Bruce Fraser)
- Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 09:48:43 -0800
At 10:53 AM -0600 3/5/02, Anthony Sanna wrote:
3 - How much to suggest they do. It would seem to me that to do it right
that they should get their press running to specs, run whatever profiling
test charts they have on a variety of the paper stocks they use (not just
two), and profile the 4-color end of their business. Then profile the
full gamut of the Iris on the same paper stocks. Profile the monitors,
and then start with all the workflow issues that make it all work.
Should they be also profiling the drum scanners as well? They spit out a
standard CMYK now, and since I've never been on that end of the business,
I can't quite figure out how a RGB scanner profile would fit into the
works.
Any advice would be welcome, guys. Thanks.
I'd start out slow. It sounds like they're comfortable with their
current proofing scenario (it may sound overly-general, but it's also
how laminate proofs used to work), and it's entirely likely that they
can match their proofs on press.
So, profile the two Iris configurations, and take Iris coated and
Iris uncoated CMYK as the aim points. Profile the monitors. Make sure
the policies are set to preserve embedded profiles.
Then try to educate them on the idea that profiles in incoming files
shouldn't be immediately discarded, expecially if they're RGB.
Profiling the scanner is an option, but for now I'd just apply the
Iris profiles to the CMYK scans. Let them get a sense for how color
management can let them preview proofs before they run on the Iris,
how it can help them evaluate customer-supplied CMYK, and how it can
let them deal with customer-supplied RGB without turning it to toast.
The idea is to augment and broaden their existing workflow rather
than trying to replace it in one swell foop.
Bruce
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