Colorsync usage in the "real world"
Colorsync usage in the "real world"
- Subject: Colorsync usage in the "real world"
- From: Richard Kenward <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 14:23:50 +0000
In message Sat, 25 Oct 2003, peter calvin writes
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The objections from the guy who oversees the lab is that there is no
guarantee that your client will have a calibrated monitor, so why
bother. He says he runs uncalibrated monitors "to get them used to
working in the real world". I suggested to him that the students don't
know what the files they are working on really look like with the
monitor they way they are.
Dear Peter
Was a stupid state of affairs! The real world.......let me tell you a
story from a personal experience of a week ago.
I wanted to find a couple of local digital printers for possible future
usage. They could not tell me how they would like to receive our image
files apart from converted to CMYK in QE (One had not even heard of
In-Design!) The concept of producing files that were correct for their
machine simply failed to register or our wish to be able to use a
profile for soft proofing or as a target for our proofer.
However the point I am slowly getting to is the guy said that there was
no point in monitor calibration as what you see on a monitor is so
different to what you get in print....and they all looked different
anyway. I asked him what forms of monitor calibration he had tried, to
be told lots! He then said that they send out pdf's of customer''s
jobs if they wanted to see how the job would look.....the customer could
look at it on their monitor and print it off on their ink jet and OK on
that. I had to remind him of what he had said earlier and he agreed
that there was no point!!!
Even he could see the stupidity of the whole situation but remained
aggressively convinced that monitors could not be used as a basis for
making any colour decisions.
This is the real world that too many in the print world reside in.
Many also seem to use the inability of the large numbers of dinosaurs to
get up to speed as a reason to stay in the stone age or
earlier...history never was my strong point......but the dinosaurs died
out, that much I do know <G>
Cheers
Richard
PS Nearly forgot to say. Ask you boss how one could build a table
from a simple sketch from a customer, if you did not know what the
measurements were!
--
Richard Kenward Digital Imaging...Preparing quality drum scans for professional
image makers who want the best. Details in Labs section at www.prodig.org
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