Re: CMYK or RGB device
Re: CMYK or RGB device
- Subject: Re: CMYK or RGB device
- From: tom vanderlinden <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 19:59:10 -0400
good evening--- -- - - -
On Jul 6, 2004, at 9:46 AM, email@hidden wrote:
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> What test(s) can the *potential* purchaser of such profiling packages
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> conduct to determine whether she should profile a printer
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> as CMYK or RGB?
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There is an easy test...but it is escaping me at the moment! Something
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about printing out certain colors/greys and seeing how they get
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reproduced. Generally if you are not using some sort of RIP on the
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front end or a Postscript printer (like an HP Designjet PS) you are
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most likely printing to an RGB device.
I'm looking for a fool proof (OK, fool resistant)
phrase or sentence that would be a helpful guide
to someone that has never purchased color management products,
but is about to.
This person could be wanting to profile their desktop ink jet,
or a color laser printer, or...
This guide would help them to know if they need to pay
for the CMYK profiling package
or save some dollars on an RGB-only version.
It would also help those who have acquired a package
that will do CMYK and RGB
be clear on which way they should profile their printer.
For many regulars on the list, this is likely a question
that they can no longer remember ever having.
But for the shy lurkers, new to the alchemy of color reproduction,
"is there a (CMYK) RIP in front of it" is just another baffling
question.
(I can still remember, it wasn't that long ago).
Does someone have a quick guide
or a test sheet
or catch phrase?
You know, like the Boy Scout stuff:
"leaflets three, let it be, berries white, poisonous sight."
suggestions?
- - - -- ---Tom Vanderlinden, 6 July 2004
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