Profilemaker_ImagePrint_Epson9600
Profilemaker_ImagePrint_Epson9600
- Subject: Profilemaker_ImagePrint_Epson9600
- From: "Kevin Casey" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:57:12 -0500
I need some advice, suggestions or information resources. I work in an advertising agency as the digital imaging technician. As such my responsibility (and my challenge) is to make sure that all images reproduce correctly (or at least pleasantly!)
regardless of output. I am on a G4 with a self-calibrating Apple display. I carefully watch my CMYK numbers (my background is Commercial printing in a closed -loop environment) and I've been proofing on an Epson 9600, with profiles built using
Gretag's Profilemaker Pro 4.1 and a Spectroscan. Generally speaking I edit in ColorMatch RGB and convert to one of the U.S. SWOP standard profiles and apply profiles in Imageprint 5.5, build 1.0.7. The proofs look good..actually better than what my
display and the numbers tell me they should. Very saturated colors. The problem arises when these images go out of house to our print vendors and their proofs (usually Fuji or Matchprint) barely resemble either my proof or my displayed image.
I have tried soft-proofing and proofing on the Epson using a vendor-supplied output profile but this doesn't really get me any closer to predictability.
I want to send targets to my print vendors and have them output on their proofing devices (the contract-level proofs that they are charged with matching on press), send me the proof so I can build profiles to employ in soft and hard-proofing. As
I've had little training with the Profilemaker software suite or with my other peripheral devices I'm a bit uncertain as to how to proceed. The Profilemaker documentation is less than straightforward. I think I need to use the TC3.5 CMYK.tif target
to send to my vendors.
Does anyone out there operate under similar circumstances? I'd like to benefit from your experience. I'd like to get my Epson to operate as a SWOP device so I can predict with reasonable accuracy what my images are going to look like when they hit
press. I know that Epson 9600 is SWOP-certified but I'm not sure I need to go that route. If you can reply to email@hidden as well as the digest I'd appreciate it. Thank you.
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Kevin Casey
Digital Imaging Technician
RightMinds
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