Re: Quick Paper Eval
Re: Quick Paper Eval
- Subject: Re: Quick Paper Eval
- From: tom vanderlinden <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 00:19:39 -0400
good evening--- -- - - -
On Jul 9, 2004, at 9:48 AM, Kevin Muldoon wrote
So, I wanted to open up a discussion as to possible methods for quickly
determining the LIKELY color reproduction capabilities of media. In
other words, to quickly determine if the media is WORTH THE TIME to
begin the process of tuning in the color.
I had a situation similar to this a few years ago,
when setting up a production printing process
that would use a high volume of inkjet printing paper.
We ended up collecting about 10 sheets each of 10 different papers,
putting an ID mark on each one, and then running them through the
entire anticipated production process, (which included lamination &
gluing)
printing the papers with several different print settings, and images,
but without the benefit of profiling them.
The result was that about half of the papers were eliminated because
they were not well suited to the entire process for one reason or
another.
The semifinalists were then eliminated by looking
at what the ink was actually doing on the paper - bleed, pooling,
density,
and guessing how much of that would be changed
by stock-specific calibration & profiling.
That left two that looked very promising,
and then pricing constraints killed one,
so I had one candidate left which I thought would profile fine.
It did and we used it for two years.
Maybe I was being a too simple-minded about it,
but I say take the easy shots when you can.
- - - -- ---Tom Vanderlinden, 10 July 2004
printing for preservation
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