Re: BEST v5
Re: BEST v5
- Subject: Re: BEST v5
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 12:14:48 +0200
Tyler Boley <email@hidden> wrote:
>Somehow we are expected to educate our clients on top of all of that.
The concept in the graphic arts community is that the image provider is
responsible for color. This concept is an extension of the pre-ICC
concept according to which the scanner operator was responsible for
color.
This is only appropriate for a PostScript workflow in which the output
device is known, and not to a PDF workflow in which the output device
is not selected. PDF is not designed to include device dependent
functions.
>May I suggest the color industry take on that task?
It has, if you look around.
>No, photographers are not accustomed to constant large equipment
>expenditures,
Until early 2000 the flagship graphic arts magazine in Germany
assembled pages using legacy and lowcost Centris Macs with 256 colors.
Look at how many questions on this List still focus on QuarkXPress 4.
When most of Apple had still not heard of ColorSync and nobody believed
a CIE-based OS would sell Macs, Apple issued a white paper on OPI which
made a bid for the workflow server market along with the client market.
The bottleneck in the workflow is still the ability to assemble layouts
with a tiny Mac, a grayscale monitor, a ten year old Pantone swatchbook
and OPI. This is low investment for you, ground deeply into the grain
of the industry -:).
As Helios rightly pointed out on the release of QXP4, you didn't want
to use the CMS if only because the only format it could color manage,
which is TIFF, must be reimported for each change of profile, adding
forever and a lunchtime to the deadline.
>Other than being able to open a pdf, or create one if
>absolutely necessary, I've totally ignored the pdf buzz.
>What's it gonna do for me?
Well, the ability to softproof what the agency graphic designer and
press operator softproof on their monitors, and to proof print what
they proof print on their printers. You don't need PDF for wedding
photography, because wedding photography is not issued in more copies
than an inkjet can produce. But it does not follow that the business of
photography has no use for PDF.
>I receive pdf layouts all the time, but no client has ever asked me to
>take part in the publishing process other than to provide photography.
Suppose a printer offered repeatability within dE 2-3. And suppose an
agency offered to contract with you for catalogue photography. The
requirement here might be PDF/X-3, with a specified spectrophotometer
(some give dE 10+ which is unacceptable) and calibration chart for
conformity. You would be able to discuss with the agency based on
remote proofs.
I am aware that remote proofing is off topic on this List, granted that
attempts to raise the subject in the past has fallen on deaf ears -:).
Thanks,
Henrik
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