Re: Remote proofing
Re: Remote proofing
- Subject: Re: Remote proofing
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:22:35 +0100
On torsdag, mar 11, 2004, at 22:43 Europe/Copenhagen, bruce fraser
wrote:
I have a lot of images that will separate beautifully to sheetfed
using relcol, but they'll be pretty damn ugly using relcol on
newsprint. So I'm left with the choice of producing mediocre output on
all processes, or good output on some and crappy output on others.
Nope, you are left with the choice between using any number of
Perceptual renderings. Not only default renderings but every flavour of
optional renderings set in the print profiling software, from cream
vanilla to Texan chilli.
In the LinoColor / ColorOpen timeframe I used to write that none of
this would work until the image design and page design application
software had become clients of the print profiling software, because
that was the original idea.
The U.S. position then was that for a decade conversations had been
generated using Relative Colorimetric with Black Point Compensation,
without pre-built Perceptual mapping, and the older method was the
better still.
Now the image design and page design application software is just that,
and the position has shifted a bit. The position now is that none of
this will work until the image design software becomes a client of the
page design software.
When the first Mac-based project rolled out in 1994 there were
typographers who swore that Adobe Type 1 could not deliver the same
legibility as proprietary, and preferably Monotype hot metal, composing
systems.
When the second Mac-based project rolled out in 2000 there were
lithographers who swore that ICC-based gamut mapping could not deliver
the same quality as eye-balled scanner curves and manual desaturations.
I agree that Robert Slimbach, Matthew Carter and Sumner Stone don't
always get the spacing and kerning right for non-English languages
especially, but I would be crazy to claim that their smarts are lower
quality than what I can see in pre-1994 printing.
I agree that the color folks south of here spend more time fighting
each other than making themselves useful to the rest of the world, but
I would be crazy to claim that their smarts are lower quality than what
I can see in pre-1994 printing.
This is 2004, the centennial of the offset lithographic press and the
duodecennial of the Adobe and Apple solution that makes it possible to
write email using scalable type, mouse-enabled hyperlinks and a monitor.
Come on, let's get real. The Luddites were a 19th century movement, God
rest their souls.
Thanks,
Henrik
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