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: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 08:04:43 -0500
> Why is this not possible with the printing industry in the year 2004?
Ignorance.
> Is every printing job a hand crafted, unrepeatable product without a
> model or proof?
In a large proportion of printers, I'd say yes -- sadly.
> Is the science and process control technology not available for the
> printing industry to accomplish this?
Yes it is. But, because of ignorance, as I said, it is meaningless. Ray,
what do you tell a printer who stubbornly tell you there is nothing wrong
with its process when in fact a 50% dot grows to 85% on his press, and
that's not on some cheap newsprint grade but on a nice coated glossy #1
stock? You tell him to go back and do its homework? This is a guy whoe does
not even know the difference between Status G and Status T on his
densitometer.
And then, he tells me not to trust the "Epson proof" because it is not the
"same dot", the "same color": only trust the press color! Everytime I go for
press approvals or press characterization, I am apalled by the depth of
technical ignorance of some printers. And I'm notr talking about some
fly-by-night operations. These are the same people who print those nice
Benjamin Moore type of paint brochures -- same press, same process, same 235
cyan hue ink.
Want to hear another one? That same printer, who could not run my job on his
85% dot gain press, decided to run it instead one of its smaller 4 color
press -- my insistence on proper dot gain uncovered a "major problem" on his
press, he said to me. When I told the pressman of the smaller press I was
aiming for the color in my Epson proof (which was simulating their analog
ColorArt) he told me flat out they'd never be able to reach those colors!
Later, during the press approval, at some point, trying to reach a certain
shade of purplish, I asked the pressman to increase cyan: he responded
"can't do that, the color is going to turn brown". I was shocked by his
reply. For a second, he made me doubt my technical competence in color. I
told him to do it anyway. Guess what? The colors came out just as I
expected: not brown but more purplish. The things these guys will say to
influence their clients and hide their incompetence is pure rhetoric.
So, education, education and education is key. Ignorance is the ennemy of
color -- everywhere. The technology is there but few people know about it. A
proof maybe the only physical, tangible "objective" specification we can
fall on whe dealing with lots of printers who don't know their hip from
their elbow.
> Ray Maxwell
Regards,
Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
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