Re: Remote proofing
Re: Remote proofing
- Subject: Re: Remote proofing
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:14:44 EST
In a message dated 3/11/04 4:45:32 PM, email@hidden writes:
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I have a lot of images that will separate beautifully to sheetfed using
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relcol, but they'll be pretty damn ugly using relcol on newsprint. So I'm left
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with the choice of producing mediocre output on all processes, or good output
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on some and crappy output on others. I'm open to any suggestions as to how to
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solve this problem, but I'm not prepared to stick my fingers in my ears and
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say lalalalala loudly whenever anyone raises it as a real argument against
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late-binding workflows.
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There's also the question of how to handle sharpening in a late-binding
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workflow. The sharpening that works nicely for a 175-lpi halftone won't work all
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that well on newsprint. Hell, the image resolution that will work well for a
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175-lpi halftone is massive overkill for newsprint.
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Am I really the only person who thinks that these are real issues? Does
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everyone else communicate with their clients in Braille?
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Braille sounds good, or how about Morse code? Now that it has a symbol for @,
that should sooth Henrik's WISI-fonts concerns. <G>
Of course we have experienced these things, but as part of an everchanging
landscape of imprecision. I once assisted a newspaper in instituting a set of
standards that involved changing their LPI from 85 to 100 (they had done some
mechanical improvements that made tighter registration possible) along with new
press profiles, and despite the increased dot gain, the finer dot images
looked great. Of course we redefined their clipping end points for targeting
images, their default image sharpening, their automated gamut compression (yes
Bruce, we do that manually, then use RelCol) and all the device links for proofing
on their HP wideformat, etc...
The next week the composing room manager returned from his month of vacation,
looked at the 100 LPI setting, and immediately set it back to 85, where it
had always been, unilaterally trashing the proofing, the sharpening, the image
quality, the dotgain, you name it. Guys like him are the unchanging part of
that everchanging landscape...
C David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Inc
email@hidden
www.colorvision.com
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