Re: What's the best rip for fine art printing?
Re: What's the best rip for fine art printing?
- Subject: Re: What's the best rip for fine art printing?
- From: Jim Rich <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 16:59:14 -0400
On 5/9/03 12:05 PM, "bruce fraser" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I've never understood why people think it's better to profile a
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CcMmYKk device as CMYK than it is to do so as RGB.
Bruce,
I have been using Image Print for some time and as most of the end-user find
it is quite easy and I do recommend it for Photographers and museums, plus
it runs on the Mac. However with IP it seem in some cases we almost always
get snagged with images and pages that have content that is made up of
grayscale and color images. The neutral shadows turn some weird color such
as green or magenta, even after hours of fiddling with profile editing or
the IP color tools.
I also use other rips and there are a number of reasons that it is a better
option to profile some flavor of CMYK in stead of RGB.
Here is one reason.
If you have a rip with linearization and ink limiting you get the largest
color gamut out of your paper and printer ink combination. This strategy
allows you to setup an optimum printing condition (you know this because you
have defined it yourself). In an RGB workflow you use the printers ink set
(some form of CMYK) but you might or might not be at the optimum print
condition for that ink and paper.
Here is another reason.
On a rip that uses CMYK profiles you can create the profile with max GCR and
get very nice neutral gray image and color images on the same page. What is
interesting about this method is that grayscale prints stay neutral gray
under different lighting conditions. You cant do that with an RGB workflow.
Also, when you have the right rip with linearization options you can
re-linearize so there is a potential for less re-profiling if something in
the process changes. That not an option with IP.
But as you mention the ImagePrint screening is one of the best, at least
today.
My .02.
Jim Rich
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