Re: What is a "by default color space profile"?
Re: What is a "by default color space profile"?
- Subject: Re: What is a "by default color space profile"?
- From: Paul Schilliger <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 09:13:51 +0200
Jim,
Thanks for the good tips. I think as others have suggested too, that the sane
solution would be to work with a reliable printer who uses CMS. But it is often
impossible as there are other reasons involved that are outside my control, and
when it comes to magazine adverts, you do not even have a contact with the
printer anyway. So my aim is to find the most universal profile, as far as the
paper type is known, and wish hard for the best!
I have had pretty good results with SWOP Coated GCR in the past, but was
recently suggested to use Eurostandard and UCR instead. But this choice was not
fool proof as it proved in the recent print failure. Anyway, I try to make my
way in this jungle!
BTW: Great resources on your website! I must read some of your PDF.
Thanks!
Paul Schilliger
Jim Rich wrote:
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Paul,
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Hmmm. There is no easy answer and there is no one size fits all solution
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especially in the situation you have described. That is sending files to
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service providers who are not ICC aware. Depending on the client and in some
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situations I sometimes suggest for the images to be converted from RGB
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to CMYK using a Photoshop 6 or 7 profile such as U.S. Web Coated v2. Of
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course in this example the client is going to print their images on a web
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press with coated paper. I personally like the sheet fed profiles as long
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as there are no ucr issues. The U.S. Web Coated v2, U.S. Web uncoated v2
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and U.S Sheetfed coated and uncoated are reasonable and can be traced back
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to a standard ICE based printing process (I believe it is referred to as TR
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001).
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Before I have the client do the conversions I get them to contact their
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printer and run a few tests to determine what the types of results the
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printer can provide. This test also allows the client to see if the test
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conversions are in the ball park before a batch of CMYK images are sent. If
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the results are bad or weird then I suggest to move on to a new printer.
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This is not the most efficient use of profiles but if the printer is
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clueless, you at least know how the image was converted and corrected for a
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specific process so you stand a chance of knowing what to expect before you
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convert a batch of images.
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Jim Rich
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