What color do SWOP neutral builds create?
What color do SWOP neutral builds create?
- Subject: What color do SWOP neutral builds create?
- From: Randy Norian <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 09:14:57 -0500
In an ideal world, what color will I get if I send SWOP neutral
builds to a "perfect" SWOP output device?
Photoshop tells me that - when I load SWOP coated as my CMYK space-
I build a few swatches in photoshop
25, 16, 16 (cmy) shows a Lab value of 79, -2, -3
50, 39, 39 shows a Lab value of 60, -2, -2
75, 63, 63 shows a Lab value of 43, -3, -2
Is photoshop saying that my (predicted) printed output will be those
Lab values? Those are quite bluish-greenish for neutrals. I had
sort of expected something closer to L, 0, 0 for output
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If I use Sheetfed Coated as my CMYK space,
25, 16, 16 (cmy) shows a Lab value of 74,-2,-2
50, 39, 39 shows a Lab value of 54, 0, 0
75, 63, 63 shows a Lab value of 37, 0, 1
Which is more in line with what I expected,
I have dialed in a Polaproofer to print those L values, but 0,0 (dead
neutral) at the quarter tones, with good success, but recently have a
client complaining that the proofs are 'too red' compared to another
shop.
So, would a shop with a proofer dialed in to "SWOP" be used to
greenish -blue neutrals?
Randy Norian
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