Re: SWOP as religion
Re: SWOP as religion
- Subject: Re: SWOP as religion
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 10:11:41 +0100
Dan Caldwell <email@hidden> wrote:
>These standard profiles will provide us the tools we need to proof
most any
>job. As mentioned above it is up to the printer to be able to print to
these
>standards on their equipment.
Yes! Let the press operator and the printing press manufacturer address
the ability of the printing press to print to sufficiently narrow
tolerances that the process can be statistically sampled by an ICC
profile and simulated on a studio inkjet with the appropriate
consumables and cross-rendering. The printing press is not the concern
of the desktop, it has other concerns to address.
The original concept advanced in the mid-1990s was to separate in
prepress (OPI) to a set of some ten standard printing conditions, and
reseparate at the press with device links. This concept was called
'virtual CMYK'. The standard objection is that because of the
limitations imposed upon device links by the ICC Specification, and
because of the limitations imposed on ICC profiles in the PostScript
pipeline, reseparation only works if all objects in the page-based
document reflect the same gamut and separation. And in an early binding
approach it is as likely that all CMYK objects will reflect the same
gamut and separation as that Tinkerbell will drop by for tea -:).
That said, the issue on the desktop remains remote proofing. Ever since
OPI arrived it has been possible to conduct capture services, assembly
services and print services in separate schedules and at separate
sites. Each attempt to start a debate about remote proofing in
distributed color workgroups has been stonewalled, presumably because
only one RIP manufacturer has the technology. But that does not change
the fact that the discussion is increasingly important now that the
concept of colorimetrically controlled printing conditions has started
to come across.
Thanks,
Henrik
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