Re: Re:CMYK profiling - Monaco / StudioPrin
Re: Re:CMYK profiling - Monaco / StudioPrin
- Subject: Re: Re:CMYK profiling - Monaco / StudioPrin
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 16:36:17 EDT
In a message dated 7/7/03 3:45:15 PM, email@hidden writes:
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> Lastly, at least for the Epson printers RIP vendors need to
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> come up with routines to do B+W output without entirely relying on the
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> grey balance of a color profile to accomplish this task.
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Do you have something like what Imageprint does in mind? If so, I would
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like to know how Imageprint creates those grayscale profiles. I just
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want to know if it is something possible to do with regular profiling
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tools, I don't necessarily want to know something of a "I could tell
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you but then I have kill you" nature.
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The ImagePrint RIP avoids the use of Yellow ink in these profiles, which
minimizes metamerism in neutral and near neutral prints. The gray ink in these
printers has a warm tone, to varying degrees, depending on the media used. By
balancing that yellow tint out with C&M inks, any tone that is not more yellow
than the gray ink on that particular paper can be achieved without adding yellow
ink, thus offering a range of low metamerism black and white options. This
is possible with any RIP that offers the necessary ink controls, and any
profiling software that allows you to draw appropriate black curves, but you need
to roll your own with most RIPs, instead of having it done for you. With
ColorBurst, for example, it is possible to build device configurations of this type,
and distribute them for use with the RIP and a given printer and inkset.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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