Re: Soft Proofing Profiling
Re: Soft Proofing Profiling
- Subject: Re: Soft Proofing Profiling
- From: neil snape <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 15:10:55 +0200
on 15/05/2004 14:07, Paul Wilson wrote :
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The next day I opened an image of a silver car on a dry lake bed for
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client ordered revisions and it was a rather poor match. The screen
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image was way too light and needed magenta overall. Soon the others
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reluctantly gave their reports. The hardware calibrations had not
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yielded any better results than the rough, by-eye, built in monitor
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control panel calibration they had been using previously. The "real men
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don't need soft proofing, we go by the numbers" mentality was back.
I'm surprised that the hardware monitor calibration was not better than none
at all.
Before the more recent releases of hardware and software optimised for LCD
screens sometimes the LCD would have unsatisfactory results, yet the CRT was
usually very good. Sometimes if a faulty colorimeter is at fault.
Since you mentioned the Optix even with a slim chance of a faulty
colorimeter, I would think it is rather the monitors themselves, or settings
somewhere in the operating system or application settings. There will always
be differences between monitors, both hardware type and between identical
models but the results of hardware calibration with most of the recent crop
of monitor profiling packages produce very close tolerance calibrations that
have an excellent screen to print match when all the control conditions have
been respected. Whether or not I'm retouching in rgb or CMYK the differences
between the screens both CRT and LCD and proof are so close that I have
confidence in color matching onscreen for output (always with an eye on the
info palette for CMYK numbers).
Matching for newsprint will not have as much homogeneity unless you use
proof preview of the some of the Adobe product line, especially Photoshop.
Perhaps something is not correctly set up in the CM of your applications.
Maybe a get up to speed training for your group in CM would tip the balance
in favour of more efficient and agreeable retouching with confidence in the
monitor.
Neil Snape nsnape @ noos.fr neil_snape @ mac.com
http://mapage.noos.fr/nsnape
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