Quark "As Is" color output
Quark "As Is" color output
- Subject: Quark "As Is" color output
- From: Bill Schwartz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 08:53:32 -0500
Quark's Print Dialog, go to the Output Tab and Change Print Colors from
'Composite CMYK' to 'As Is'. I use a Color Server, but whatever you do DON'T
let Quark do the color conversion. I had a designer immediately notice this
on some 16 page Contract Proof Sigs. The AS Is option is equivalent to
Distillers's "Leave Color Unchanged" setting.
Be very careful with Quark's badly misnamed "As Is" color. Here are some Quark forum comments from a very authoritative German source. A link follows.
The 'As is' output mode is not spot color compliant. All spot colors within your job will be converted to DeviceRGB. Printers marks would be normally output as spot color named 'All' and therefore they are converted to DeviceRGB too. In my eyes this makes the 'As is' output mode absolutely unuseable as long as you
- need printers marks
- cannot be 100% sure that no spot color information is part of your layout . . .
The output mode 'As is' outputs every non-CMYK and non-spot color color space as DeviceRGB. This means that e.g. Lab is converted to RGB. All that conversions are again done without color management. But the chance that an unknown/unwanted color space conversion takes place is much lower than using 'Composite CMYK' as output mode . . . I did not make use of this new output mode because it does not give me the fucntionality I would exepct from such an option. I would expect that the color really stay untouched . . . But I also exect that calibrated color is output if color management is turned on and I expect that I can output losslessly in the area of spot colors. Because my idea behind using a 'As is' output mode is to implement a production neutral output worfflow which allows me to shift all needed color space transformation to a later stage of my prepress workflow. So far the only application I know which can give me this kind of production freedom is Adobe InDesign CS and its implementation of the 'Composite unchanged' output mode.
http://www.quark.com/service/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4856&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
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