Re: What flavour of CMYK to supply
Re: What flavour of CMYK to supply
- Subject: Re: What flavour of CMYK to supply
- From: "Stephen Marsh" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 09:54:43 +1100
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>With the 350% total area cover of this flatsheet profile, I would think
that
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>some web printers might have issues with this shadow build? With dot gain
of
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>around 23/24/24/27 at least you will not be getting a dark image, I
prefer
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>to go a bit lighter than darker if the conditions are not known (the
TR001
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>has lower gains than the flatsheet profile, which seems strange by
default
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>or average).
>
When you're being told to supply CMYK for secret printing conditions,
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there's no right answer! I figure it's easier to reduce TAC than to
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increase it, and it might just provoke them into revealing the TAC
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they actually need. The disclaimer part was as important as the
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profile choice -- it's silly to ask for CMYK then provide no more
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info.
All true and good points - I just thought about the straight conversion, not
post separatoion edits to reduce the TAC...which is why the TR001 was my
first thought.
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The gain in the sheetfed coated profile is based on a 175-line
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screen, which is why it's high.
Good point...while the TR001 would be for a 133 screen.
Stephen Marsh.
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