Re: untagged RGB data
Re: untagged RGB data
- Subject: Re: untagged RGB data
- From: "john c." <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 09:27:51 -0500
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Murphy" <email@hidden>
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Anyone sharing CMYK images haphazardly without respect to how they were
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separated or where they will be printed are asking for problem, period.
Yet, everyone does. I'm in this business almost 30 years, and I have yet to
encounter one agency person, pre-press person or printer who can tell me
anything about what his CMYK file was created for. All I want to do is
correctly convert their files to RGB so I can work with them for what I need
to do. What's amazing, is that THEY can't even convert them to RGB because
they haven't given themselves the tools to do it correctly for lack of color
management.
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Embedding a profile does not solve this problem. And given the
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realities of existing workflows concerning embedded profiles in CMYK
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images, you're just asking for trouble to do it and then hand off those
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images to people you haven't had explicit discussions with. Embedded
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profiles for RGB images communicate color well. Embedded profiles for
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CMYK images do not, they're insufficient as they're currently designed.
How can we make it better? Surely, you're not suggesting that this current
lack of knowledge is a good thing.
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CMYK profiles embedded in images can be a good thing when the
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destination is a device with perfect register (space concerns
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notwithstanding).
Could this mean correctly displays on a monitor or prints to a Lambda or 11
color inkjet printer? We're way past the point where files are always going
to press, yet people keep sending out mystery CMYK files and wondering why
they get unpredictable results. I suspect that there's an understanding
among the press people that if they can keep themselves and their clients in
the dark ages, then they can retain a lock on their incomes. The day color
management works in their shop, the days of endless proof$ and color edit$
might be over.
john castronovo
tech photo & imaging
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