Re: untagged RGB data
Re: untagged RGB data
- Subject: Re: untagged RGB data
- From: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 16:52:39 -0700
On Dec 21, 2003, at 3:43 PM, john c. wrote:
What I'm continually fighting is the rash assumption that because
someone
has been able to get a file to print correctly with certain press
conditions
(which are hidden and unknown to me - maybe even long forgotten), then
I
should have no problem getting the same result from that file when I
open
it. A profile (or any other way of passing on some knowledge about the
file)
would surely simplify my life.
In that specific situation it certainly would simplify your life.
My latest approach is to assume that unless someone can tell me
otherwise,
all untagged CMYK files are "U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2", and if the
color is
wacky, then they must want it that way. Is there anything wrong with
this
approach?
If the customers don't complain and you still get paid, no. No sense in
questioning good luck.
You're right, it's another discussion, but with such ignorance comes
such
arrogance, and I never miss an opportunity to stress that more
information
is better than less.
The idea that more information is better than less information is an
assumption. It is possible to overwhelm people with too much
information, too many options, and you end up with a mess. You are
welcome to blame it on anything that makes you feel confident in your
abilities and that it's really someone else is who is at fault, but
really the problem is bad design. We're experiencing increasingly
complicated and capable applications and operating systems and the
sophistication and experience of the end user is not keeping up. Nor
does it NEED to in most instances. Individuals develop niche skills
unique to their specific situation and business. Yet they must use
general purpose applications that have every friggin feature turned on,
a number of which will HURT them. For them to be forced into having to
learn something completely useless just to avoid injury does not
increase efficiency in workflow. It doesn't reduce stress in people's
lives. It's merely about exchanging old problems for new ones.
That someone might act on it inappropriately shouldn't
be an excuse to provide less information about a file.
That is not always true.
Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (TM)
www.colorremedies.com/realworldcolor
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Co-author "Real World Color Management"
Published by PeachPit Press (ISBN 0-201-77340-6)
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