Re: untagged RGB data
Re: untagged RGB data
- Subject: Re: untagged RGB data
- From: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 13:35:44 -0700
On Dec 21, 2003, at 7:27 AM, john c. wrote:
From: "Chris Murphy" <email@hidden>
Anyone sharing CMYK images haphazardly without respect to how they
were
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.
Yet the world still manages to turn. They still get proofs out, get
paid for them, get the job printed per customer expectations
(eventually) and get paid for that too. They get a CMYK image, they
make a proof someone color corrects it and they get a print. That it's
inefficient is really another debate.
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.
There are ways to handle this that do not require embedded profiles in
those CMYK images.
How can we make it better? Surely, you're not suggesting that this
current
lack of knowledge is a good thing.
I'm saying that embedding profiles in CMYK images isn't panacea. They
aren't a replacement for direct communication.
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.
I don't think this is a conscious decision on their part, to subvert
color management. Their experiences, for various reasons, have been
negative. And even to this day there are pieces of equipment and
software that cause undesirable conversions too easily. Yes it's a
workflow problem, but *that* is not easy to solve. When vendors screw
up implementation of color management, we have to live with those
screwups for YEARS.
Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (TM)
www.colorremedies.com/realworldcolor
---------------------------------------------------------
Co-author "Real World Color Management"
Published by PeachPit Press (ISBN 0-201-77340-6)
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