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: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 13:52:37 -0600
on 5/28/04 12:17 PM, Rick Gordon wrote:
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You've created a book with hundreds or thousands of images that you have
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hand-tuned to CMYK using differing levels of black generation. You've embedded
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profiles in the images so that you can easily manage them for further editing,
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and have placed those images into many different QuarkXPress documents with
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image update warnings turned on.
Being a Gemini, I see naturally this issue two ways. First, you're supplying
color documents set to go to output. The numbers are what need to be
supplied, no one is going to open, view, or convert the data. The data goes
to the output device "as is". No need for a profile. The key here is that no
one mucks around with the data which I have to say seems to be more the norm
with printers and prepress (unless you ask them to or you give them
something like RGB that they have to deal with. The opposite is true with
RGB labs photographers use who seem to feel they have to muck around with
your perfectly good files).
The other side of the Gemini feels that it's just wrong to provide untagged
documents. There are far too many of them. If everyone in the food chain
knew how to use them and all the RIPs or other items that can screw up a job
due to an embedded profile were to go away, then all this would be easy;
just always embed a profile. Since that's not the case, it seems safer to
pick option A (no profile, right numbers).
Andrew Rodney
http://digitaldog.imagingrevue.com/
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