Re: Remote proofing
Re: Remote proofing
- Subject: Re: Remote proofing
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 23:29:56 -0500
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The #1 issue that print providers have with RGB workflows is the current
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difficulty of ensuring that things like black text and black drop shadows
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separate as K-only.
If you're a designer who creates pages with black text for a living, in
adobe InDesign, you really have to go out of your way to that text RGB
'black'. Unless I miss your point. As for Drop Shadows, the default color in
InDesign is always 100% black. It's the designer's prerogative to experiment
with rich black drop shadows. But that's hardly a print provider issue.
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I'm far from being the only person who has this concern. It's shared by all
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the trade printers and all the high-end separation houses I've ever talked to,
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and if color management is ever going to be embraced, rather than barely
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accepted with ill grace, by those communities, it's an issue that needs to be
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addressed, not swept under the rug.
High end separations are still very much an art in the hands of a small
number of skilled operators, albeit a diminishing number of skilled
operators. Admittedly, the current generation of repro specialists and
scanner operators are slowly sucombimg to the convenience and the economics
of online stock libraries and digital photography, as they have for years
now. I wonder for how long is it going to be before the issues of 'color
management barely accepted with ill grace by those communities' simply die
out with the disappearance of those very same communities? Not that I am
trying to swept the issues under the rug.
Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
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