Re: Spot Colors
Re: Spot Colors
- Subject: Re: Spot Colors
- From: Graeme Gill <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 11:27:50 +1000
"Omniscience, Inc." wrote:
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Without a pantone license in the rip, tables defined, a way to trap the pantone
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names correctly without having to take apart files, and no wacky workflows, an
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avg users has very little chance getting accurate pantones. A Color savvy person
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would also have a big project on his has to build all the
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tables required
Pantone licenced spot color libraries are fairly widely available, and
easily accessible (Xrite's Colorshop for instance comes with such libraries,
and is pretty reasonably priced).
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I haven't seen a rip that will print pantones correctly they all have there flaws and
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a lot of work for an smart end-user.And from the number of response I received from
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my post no one else has either.
The impression I have is that our users just turn it on, and it works. The
RIP extracts named colors, and it's easy enough for us to match against the usual
minor naming variations. For anything odd, the RIP "failed to find spot match"
messages allow the user to add a custom named profile entry to resolve the color
(good for packaging jobs for instance, or non-reproducable colors like "silver" etc.).
The same spot color facility is used for defining separation colors (for
recombine jobs), as well as Imagesetter/screen proofing jobs spot color
plates. The RIP merges the color corrected CMYK + spot plains together,
using an overprint model, ink limits the result, before sending the result
to the inkjet or copier.
Graeme Gill.
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