Re: CMYK profiling - Monaco / StudioPrint
Re: CMYK profiling - Monaco / StudioPrint
- Subject: Re: CMYK profiling - Monaco / StudioPrint
- From: Sunando Sen <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 19:20:46 -0400
On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 04:36 PM, email@hidden wrote:
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The ImagePrint RIP avoids the use of Yellow ink in these profiles,
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which minimizes metamerism in neutral and near neutral prints. The
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gray ink in these printers has a warm tone, to varying degrees,
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depending on the media used. By balancing that yellow tint out with
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C&M inks, any tone that is not more yellow than the gray ink on that
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particular paper can be achieved without adding yellow ink, thus
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offering a range of low metamerism black and white options. This is
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possible with any RIP that offers the necessary ink controls, and any
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profiling software that allows you to draw appropriate black curves,
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but you need to roll your own with most RIPs, instead of having it
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done for you. With ColorBurst, for example, it is possible to build
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device configurations of this type, and distribute them for use with
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the RIP and a given printer and inkset.
Interesting! Heavy or maximum GCR, with a very low black start point
(5-10%) in the profiler. Coupled with yellow ink turned off in the RIP
(or perhaps turned off only in quarter tones and higher?). Maybe I
should download one of those Imageprint profiles to see in Photoshop
what it does.
Regards,
Sunando Sen
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