Re: Color Management InkJet Proofing Questions
Re: Color Management InkJet Proofing Questions
- Subject: Re: Color Management InkJet Proofing Questions
- From: joel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 12:43:51 -0500
David Iannarelli wrote:
I wanted to ask the group your recommendations on the best way for printing
Illustrator, InDesign and Quark documents that are using placed
photographs and
spot PMS colors
with a Epson inkjet or other similar device.
See the color cookbooks at
http://www.apple.com/colorsync/ for starters.
The rest of your part one is a lot to cover today...
The goal is to have the Epson 1280 or 2200 simulate how a CMYK proof or final
printed piece will end up looking.
Is one better than the other?
Should you keep the Illustrator, Quark, InDesign document in an RGB or CMYK
workflow?
Depends on your needs. We target CMYK for some jobs. RGB for various
output requirements of other jobs.
If RGB, at what point will the file need to be converted to CMYK?
Once you've chose which target CMYK device you are printing to.
What about CMYK? Since the print driver will have to change the
file to RGB then
back to CMYK, how accurate will the pre proof color be?
CMYK>CMYK conversions are always iffy as there is such a broad range
of devices. Most target an idealized SWOP or ISO standard for
workspaces.
Can you apply the two printer profiles like you can in Photoshop or is there
another method?
There are linked profiles for some workflows. I don't use them much,
but have seen them work.
If there is type and or a vector based image in the document will
the type and
line art print correctly?
Depends on your font types, supported postscript level of software
and hardware, and the soundness of your actual generated postscript.
If the type font is a Postscript style?
See above.
Is there a work around without spending a bunch of money on a
hardware or software
RIP?
About 200 immediately come to mind for my workstation alone. Either
way, we generate postscript and Distill to PDF as a workshop standard.
If the only way is a RIP, what are the best solutions?
What are your needs?
I have herd some work arounds for Quark is to make a Tiff of the
page or to use
CompassXT with Quark to color manage
all the elements.... InDesign cannot manage EPS....
InDesign does even better. You can open the EPS in its originating
application, copy and paste it into ID and manage the color there all
from one table.
ps: excuse my clipped speech...too much email this AM and not enough
time properly respond in full. Hopefully you can get some reading in
and also provide us with more targeted questions next round...;0)
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