Re: ICC profiling with alternative ink laydown
Re: ICC profiling with alternative ink laydown
- Subject: Re: ICC profiling with alternative ink laydown
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 08:46:21 -0500
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We were looking at GretagMacBeth for our CMYK profiling needs, but found out
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the hard way that their ProfileMaker software doesn't take into account
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alternative ink laydown sequences (instead of printing CMYK, we go YMCK,
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because of a press limitation), so it completely gives us false ICC
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profiles.
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So my question is, what profiling software can deal with this?
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Jeff Crump
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Scanning Coordinator
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The Leaf-Chronicle
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>No profiling packages of any kind is able to do that! You need to run the
target in both YMCK abd CMYK to get the real colors. Ink trapping will
change the colors in each printing sequence.>>
Actually, you might find that ColorVision's ProfilerPRO does just what you need, as it reads the actual results of black generation and other settings, instead of attempting to model them after printing a raw target.
CDTobie
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