Re: No More RGB/Taking a CMYK delivery on
Re: No More RGB/Taking a CMYK delivery on
- Subject: Re: No More RGB/Taking a CMYK delivery on
- From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 11:17:18 -0700
OK. Let's take this example.
You've created a book with hundreds or thousands of images that you have hand-tuned to CMYK using differing levels of black generation. You've embedded profiles in the images so that you can easily manage them for further editing, and have placed those images into many different QuarkXPress documents with image update warnings turned on.
Now when it's time to ship files, you have to re-edit every image to remove its profile (OK, probably with an AppleScript or batch command) AND you have to update each Quark document (OK, probably by automatically forcing the re-import of all images, but still a time-consuming and potentially risky move).
What a pain!! Hours of extra work. Is it either that or the equally unpleasant alternative of maintaining yet another set of duplicate images for placement and hoping that all versions stay synchronized.
This is all a lot of work to protect yourself from someone else's idiotic and totally avoidable behavior.
I haven't had to deal with these problems yet, because I've got good communication with the vendors that I use, but I have too much respect for the opinions of some of the people who have been espousing an untagged CMYK workflow to dismiss it out of hand.
Rick Gordon
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On 5/28/04 at 11:27 AM -0500, Bob Smith wrote in a message entitled
"Re: No More RGB/Taking a CMYK delivery on":
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On May 28, 2004, at 7:55 AM, jc castronovo wrote:
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>Why do others have to conclude that it's wrong to embed a CMYK
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>profile, just so that there's LESS chance that the printer can screw it up?
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You just answered your own question. There's less chance that the job gets screwed up. My goal it to have the job printed with as little likelyhood of problems as possible. If in this specific situation, leaving the profile out helps to insure that then so be it. What's the harm? The file has already been prepped for the final destination. There's no benefit in having the profile in the file except to provide an easy means for someone to make a conversion when none is desired.
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> that file winds up being printed on newsprint,
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>all would be fine without a profile. But if the file goes elsewhere,
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>hopefully someone will notice how bad it is and the guessing begins.
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The file's not going anywhere else. We're talking about files prepped for the final destination. If its known that they'll be used elsewhere or other conversions are needed then supplying something other than CMYK is probably in order.
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