Re: How to work with ColorSync unaware printers?
Re: How to work with ColorSync unaware printers?
- Subject: Re: How to work with ColorSync unaware printers?
- From: Paul Schilliger <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 08:29:21 +0100
Paul Schilliger wrote:
What would you think of sending Photoshop files that have been saved as RGB EPS files? The printer would then have to check the CMYK option when he opens the file, and the file should be then separated into his CMYK settings. Would that approach make sense?
From: Donna Frizzell-Cahill
Good if the printer actually opens your ps file. I found that when I first start in production from the color department that most where just linking to the image and running the RGB file through the rip. It was an awful conversion.
From: "Walter Zacharias"
As such, our tables are turned. We continue to ask, how do we work with ColorSync unaware creators? I have high hopes of finding concrete answers to this question during the "What to Do When Someone is NOT ColorManaged" session at this year's GATF Colour Management Conference.
From: Steve Upton
1. Many printers THINK they are "profiled" because they have profiles setup in their RIP. What they don't understand is most prepress RIPs will NOT convert CMYK to a different profile because they (the RIPs) consider it "done". So even though the printer configured their RIP to have a CMYK profile, the profile will only get used if RGB is sent to it. So the printer thinks conversion is occurring and it is not. - this is outrageously common.
When dealing with non color management-savvy printers it is still best to do as you are doing and request separation information and send CMYK. In this case it sounds like they are not printing things properly and you did what you could. I'd show them the error in their ways and see how they respond.....
and keep looking for more savvy printers....
No miracle working solution yet, hey? Thanks All for the hints! And
please let us know what comes out of the GATF Conference.
Best regards,
Paul Schilliger
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