Workflow implications on profiling
Workflow implications on profiling
- Subject: Workflow implications on profiling
- From: Rich Apollo <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 13:30:21 -0600
On Dec 1, 2004, at 1:02 PM, email@hidden
wrote:
However, it seems to me that although I can generate a profile for
my press, (which right now, does not have gray balanced as I would
like),
there is no way to generate a profile for the dot proofer, or rather
there
is, but there is no way to apply it. Or is there?
Matt,
As one of the unfortunate souls that has had to color manage a
dot-proofer this is what I found:
What you need to do is perform the color transform from Press Profile
to Proofer Profile before the dots are generated. The caveat to this is
that you need to either be able to "undo" this transform or you must
perform it on a copy of the file, since the file you're working with is
your RIPped/Trapped data that will go to film/plate and is assumed to
be in your press colorspace. A system I worked with wrote the color
transformation information as an addendum to the file and so it could
in effect be undone.
The downside of this scenario is that the dots on your proof no longer
have anything to do with the dots on your film/plate. Also, your solids
will no longer be pure colors.The other option available with something
like BestColor is to generate your 1-bit data normally and then color
manage the individual dots. The dots are themselves treated as tiny
areas of color.
Rich Apollo
Priority Litho
314-344-1144
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