Re: BEST v5
Re: BEST v5
- Subject: Re: BEST v5
- From: bruce fraser <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:35:35 -0700
At 11:10 AM +0200 10/13/03, Henrik Holmegaard wrote:
On Monday, Oct 13, 2003, at 00:00 Europe/Copenhagen, bruce fraser wrote:
A great deal of photography will never go anywhere near a prepress
workflow. That doesn't obviate the need for color management, but
it does obviate the need for Postscript.
I am not questioning the concept that photographers may sometimes
think of their business as the production of loose images. I am
questioning the concept that photographers should always think of
their business as the production of loose images.
I don't believe that's a concept that anyone has introduced. I'm
merely pointing out that many photographers are in fact in the
business of producing loose images, and that for those photographers,
Postscript workflow simply introduces uneccessary layers of
complexity that don't help them get the job done.
I routinely scare photographers with both rendering intents and CMYK.
A lot of 'em take to it rather easily.
(ColorSync was designed for any rendering pipeline, but how many
wedding photographers with raster printers buy into color management
beyond a monitor colorimeter?
You'd be surprised. For people who are shooting digitally, and trying
to make money selling prints, color management isn't really
optional-it's a major money-saver.
For fine print photographers there is a business synergy with offset
printing and an interest in color separation, among other things. I
don't care which RIP the photographer, graphic designer and press
operator are using, as long as it supports the minimum rendering
constructs defined in the standards. And does so in an intelligible
user interface which applies terminology which agrees with the Adobe
(and GretagMacbeth -:)) interpretation of the ICC Specification.)
I agree that it would be a good idea for the industry to hold a
whip-round to rent a user interface designer who would work with the
RIP vendors....
Bruce
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