Re: : Colorsync usage in the "real world"
Re: : Colorsync usage in the "real world"
- Subject: Re: : Colorsync usage in the "real world"
- From: Barry Gorrell <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:45:39 -0800
- Organization: Cecil Community College
Hi Calvin,
Feel free to pass my email address along to "the guy who oversees (your) lab". I
also manage a Mac based Digital Imaging Lab at a local community college and can
testify to the good results we've achieved for students since implementing color
management a year and a half ago. I'd be happy to fill him in on the details of
our experiences.
Keeping 40-50 monitors, 8 scanners and 9 printers profiled does require a
significant amount of time but the results are well worth it. It sounds to me
like his conclusion... "that there is no guarantee that your client will have a
calibrated monitor, so why bother.", is more due to laziness than a desire to
help students prepare for graphics professions in the "real world".
Actually it makes no difference if a client has a profiled monitor or not. In
fact, clients usually hire graphic professionals specifically because they have
the color management expertise and calibrated devices required to produce
reliable, repeatable color, which the client often does not. That's the real
"real world".
Barry Gorrell
Visual Communications Lab Manager
Cecil Community College
North East, MD
email@hidden
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On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 08:25:13 Colorsync-users digest, Vol 3 #1023
Peter A. Calvin wrote:
I am teaching photography at a community college, including digital
courses. My students and I are frustrated by the complete lack of color
management in the digital lab.
Although I have been working with calibrated monitors and
printer/scanner profiles for several years in my commercial work, I
haven't been able to get the folks at the school on board. (And the
graduate MFA program I am involved in at another school runs a
Colorsync savvy Mac lab.)
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.
I am sure there may be other comments, but the main question I have is:
In the "real world", how accepted is the use of color management? That
is, are there any figures as to the percentage of art directors,
prepress houses, publications, etc., who work in a color managed
(Colorsync) environment. I am looking for ammunition to carry back to
the department head.
Thanks,
Peter A. Calvin
Photojournalism Instructor
Collin County Community College
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