Re: Building a SWOP profile (was Re: new Apple Cinema Display)
Re: Building a SWOP profile (was Re: new Apple Cinema Display)
- Subject: Re: Building a SWOP profile (was Re: new Apple Cinema Display)
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 07:57:53 -0500
I wrote:
>
> I am curious as to which CMYK Reference ICC profile is used for proofing in
>
> this hardware/software combo. Let's see, the monitor profile comes from
>
> basICColor, Photoshop comes from Photoshop but where does the CMYK color
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> space come from? TR-001?
To which Graeme replied:
>
When you get a SWOP certification kit, you get a SWOP press sheet
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that includes a standard IT8 target on it. Cut it out, measure it
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with your favourite spectrometer, then use your favourite
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profiling package, and you have a SWOP source profile.
Why not just build the profile up from TR-001 published data?
What's the point of measuring an IT8.7/3 on a SWOP press sheet? For the new
paper substrate (60# Monterrey Gloss as opposed to the discontinued Champion
TextWeb)?
Roger Breton
Laval, Canada
email@hidden
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