Soft Proofing Profiling
Soft Proofing Profiling
- Subject: Soft Proofing Profiling
- From: Paul Wilson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 08:07:36 -0400
I have been lurking on this list for only a few weeks and while I am
very hesitant to ask such a basic question but I seem to have nowhere
else to turn.
I am employed as a retoucher at a pre-press house in the Northeast.
They are color managed and mainly use three profiles. One for scanning
and two for outputs. The two output profiles are for 300 total ink jobs
and 320 total ink jobs. They do not embed a profile for newspaper ads.
That said, until now, the monitors we "operators" work on have not been
hardware calibrated. I got them to let me use the Monico OPTIX unit
that had been lying around to calibrate my monitor. The results seemed
very impressive. At first. I compared the on screen images of a couple
of jobs to the Kodak Approvals we use and the match was impressive
enough that three other people asked to have their monitors calibrated
too.
The next day I opened an image of a silver car on a dry lake bed for
client ordered revisions and it was a rather poor match. The screen
image was way too light and needed magenta overall. Soon the others
reluctantly gave their reports. The hardware calibrations had not
yielded any better results than the rough, by-eye, built in monitor
control panel calibration they had been using previously. The "real men
don't need soft proofing, we go by the numbers" mentality was back.
The most detailed comment was that it seemed the best one could do was
get a monitor to match one proof visually within the limits of
transmitted RGB via excited phosphors Vs. dye sub reflected. But
consistent, useful, save a round of color, soft proofing from job to
job was a snare and an illusion.
Am I asking too much? Is the secret in figuring out how to use the
Proof Setup and Proof Colors under View in Photoshop? What's a 56 year
old- use to do it all with an airbrush- went digital ten years ago-
surrounded by young whipper snappers to do?
TIA
Paul Wilson
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