Re: Commercial Printers and Color Management
Re: Commercial Printers and Color Management
- Subject: Re: Commercial Printers and Color Management
- From: Robert Lyon <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 08:52:49 -0400
What about press calibration? Profiling a press or any device before
profiling isn't the wisest. There are many variables in the process
such as plating linearization, fountain solutions, ink formulations,
rotations, blanket and plate packings, paper, humidity, ink trap, etc.
Standards were put into place so that a printer could match a proof
such as Matchprint when they had the proper "controls" in place.
Before embracing a CTP workflow, it is important to carefully prepare
one's strategy. Do I want to be able to print legacy type of work. Do I
wish to re-purpose it in some way to conform to a different type of
system? Do I want to carefully analyze the dot gain of all of my
presses so that I can baseline them with plate compensation curves? Do
I want it to be my customer's responsibility to separate their files
for my "unique" situation? Can I advise my customers in methods for
doing so?
I have been dealing with the issues of one very large printing company.
Our job prints in 2 different plants on the same equipment. One prints
faithfully to the Kodak Approval SWOP Standard, the other has a totally
different (when viewed in a 5000K GTI viewer) looking Epson 9600 proof.
This company is making it their customers problem that they can not
switch the work from plant to plant! This lack of calibration and
standardization makes it hard on both the printer and the print buyer!
This is a very healthy debate. I can understand all of the different
viewpoints.
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