Re: What flavour of CMYK to supply
Re: What flavour of CMYK to supply
- Subject: Re: What flavour of CMYK to supply
- From: neil snape <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 23:31:35 +0100
on 21/11/2002 22:36, Nick Tresidder at email@hidden wrote:
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Could you pre-press people please tell me what you consider the
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"safest" type of CMYK file to send in this situation SWOP? custom
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setup?GCR? UCR? TIL ? max black? black/white points?
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I realise there are many, many variables here but in the absence of
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more info from some clients what do I give them?
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regards
Although not a prepress person, rather an advocate of good ICC CM using
Colorsync , I'll dare say;
Adobe's included V2 files are the high quality standard separation profiles
that have just the right amount of GCR to allow fine printing still keeping
error tolerance in the press operation. By that what I mean to say is; if
your image is against another image/ad separated for entirely different
conditions the ink control on press can still be adjusted to maintain a
decent balance just the same. You can run into problems with more specific
separations either by profile or proprietary means that if the press op cuts
back say black, the image will go extremely flat , or a grey hue shift that
will be very unpleasant.
Luckily for Europeans the paper stock in the average web printed magazine
comes out with slightly stronger colours than the SWOP standard printed
magazine stocks.
So for Europe >Euroscale coated V2, Sheetfed SWOP V2 , or SWOP V2 WEB for
web rotary for North America, and Japan has it's flavour, with on occasion
I've had good success.
Neil Snape email@hidden
http://mapage.noos.fr/nsnape
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