Re: Commercial Printers and Color Management
Re: Commercial Printers and Color Management
- Subject: Re: Commercial Printers and Color Management
- From: Terry Wyse <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 15:33:33 -0400
on 10/6/03 10:32 AM, Rich Apollo wrote:
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Number 2: Of course a printer's proofs are optimized to match their
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presses. That's just common sense. A cookie cutter approach to printing
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would make the print buyers' jobs a lot easier, wouldn't it?
I wouldn't assume that printer's proofs are optimized to match their
presses. With the possible exception of Dupont Cromalin, there really WAS no
way to adjust a proofing system to match a press. Pigments/dyes in the
proofing media were relatively fixed (some systems offered a couple of
alternate choices for CMY but that's it) and you typically only had a choice
between either a low or high gain laminate/receiver material. It was a
pretty inflexible situation but the beauty was that everybody could pretty
much match everybody else's proof, more-or-less. :-)
So a cookie cutter approach was what we had prior to CTP. All analog proofs
were more-or-less created equal and all the scans and swatch books that were
used were based on more-or-less standard press gain of around 18-22%.
Now with CTP we see printers taking "advantage" of the reduced dot gain
instead of bringing their presses (platesetters actually) back to the same
standard dot gain that was assumed for virtually everything. The days of
simply supplying a universally understood standard such as a "Matchprint"
(that could mean any number of actual proofing systems) is, well, history.
Like I've said many times before, printers have the choice of either
bringing their CTP system back to the same standards that worked for years
and temporarily ignore ICC color management OR make a conscience decision to
print "better" with CTP but, in the process, require them to re-write the
swatch books, re-separate all supplied CMYK images and embrace icc color
management.
My $.02.
Regards,
Terry
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