Re: Wide gamut CMYK profiles
Re: Wide gamut CMYK profiles
- Subject: Re: Wide gamut CMYK profiles
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:37:07 -0500
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I've got a project coming up where the end-user would like to do two kinds
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of "proofing" on both a color laser device and an inkjet device. One goal is
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to do offset proofing. The other is to do what I would call "presentation"
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type of printer/proofing. For the presentation stuff I suggested an RGB
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workflow but it looks like that is not going to be possible as they want to
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do sort of a "wide gamut" CMYK presentation printing. IOW, re-purpose the
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existing CMYK files and print them using an assumed/assigned wide gamut CMYK
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space. One suggestion by the customer was to take use the CMYK profile from
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the inkjet device and use this as the source/assumed profile for the color
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laser/toner device. Rather than do that, I'd like to find a wide(er) gamut
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CMYK space that I can use as a source/reference profile on both devices.
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So, my question is, is there any known well-behaved wide CMYK spaces out
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there or do I need to manufacture my own? Something in the range of AdobeRGB
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or BruceRGB as a CMYK space would be ideal I think.
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Cheers,
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Terry
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Unbelievable how some client will desperately try to hold on to whathever
pre-ICC notion they had about what was a safe CMYK workflow is!
You know that there is absolutely no use going to so much trouble to find
some "reference", "abstract", "fictitious", "artificial", "wide-gamut CMYK"
space to serve as a potential candidate in the search for the "ideal
presentation CMYK Working space". I can just see the person that has come up
with such a ludicrous, far-fetcheds, twisted idea. How ignorant some people
can be, after four years of Photoshop 5 and up, about color management
concepts is beyond me.
I, for one, have started to incorporate AdobeRGB in all the designs I create
out of Illustrator and Photoshop and InDesign: I never have the foggiest
idea about where my jobs will print! So why make all kinds of crazy
assumptions (I heard the road to hell is paved with good intentions) about
press conditions, substrate, ink sets? It's only good for the pharmaceutical
company who sell me boxes and boxes of Advil and Tylenol. I use plain and
simple AdobeRGB and check my designs as I am working, with ProofSetup setup
to US WebCoated SWOP v2, to be on the "safe" side. And that's all I can do.
After that, it's out of my hands! Handing off to someone else whom I hope
will be able to make some intelligent use of my embedded AdobeRGB profile
and make good separation using whathever technology their heart desire. It's
their responsibility to know the process they're making separations for, not
mine. Unless they want to work with me to develop some custom CMYK profile
for their print conditions. I have to draw the line somewhere.
Best regards and I hope I could help you more,
Roger Breton
Laval, Canada
email@hidden
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