Some Press profile!
Some Press profile!
- Subject: Some Press profile!
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 23:30:52 -0500
One of my clients, a photographer, asked his printer to send him his press
profile. I wasn't expecting anything special from this printer having worked
with him in the past. So I was surpised tonight when my client called up to
say he had been sent the printer press profile. I asked: what did they say
when you asked? I expected my client to say something like: oh! They said I
did not need a press profile, or something along those lines. But I was
surprised to hear my client say: oh! No problem, I immediately received it
the minute I asked for it. Then, all excited, I asked my client to forward
me the press profile, figuring all my problems were over and life was really
going to be easy from that point on...
I just received the "famous" press profile. It is named "MitsuMVP175-icm".
Being on OSX, it appeared with a generic text icon when I saved it out of
Entourage. I figured the file must have come from Windows and it, somehow,
lost its proper file extension. So, I manually appended the ICM extension at
the end of the filename. Ok. The proper ColorSync icon came up. Hunkey
dorey. I double clicked the file to open it up in ColorSync utility, just to
check its internal name: nothing. Huh? I dragged the icon from the desktop
in the ColorThink icon, I the dock. CCT started. But the color list window
came up, as though it was some kind of named color profile. But no.
ColorThink was actually caught up in an endless loop which I had to force
quit it out of. Then, I figured I ought to take a closer look at this
profile with a text editor. Even if the header would have come up garbled in
hexadecimal, I figured, maybe I'd be able to catch a few ASCII strings and
diagnose what was going on with this profile.
Here's what the first lines of TextEdit showed on this "press" profile:
> %!PS-Adobe-3.0 Resource-ColorSpace
> %ūginResource: ColorSpace MitsuMVP175_icm
>
> [/CIEBasedDEFG <<
> %%Agfa Color Management System.
> %%ColorSpace version Release Version 3.13, %E%, Photographic Colormatching.
>
> /ResourceInfo <<
> /Name (MitsuMVP175_icm)
> /Version (3.9)
> /Date (19/12/2001)
> /Creator (Color Management Group)
> /Copyright ((c)98/06/17 Agfa-Gevaert N.V.)
>>>
>
> /ColorRenderingType 1
>
> /RangeDEFG
> [0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1]
>
> /EncodeDEFG
> [{} {} {} {}]
>
> /RangeHIJK
> [0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1]
>
> /Table
> [17 17 17 17 [
> [
> <
> FF8080F28080E48080D78080CA8080BE8080B28080A480809480808580807780806B8080608080
> 53
> 80804680803880802B8080FC7F86EF7F86E37F85D57F85C97F85BD7F85B17F85A37F84947F8484
> 7F
> 84767F836B7F835F80835380834680823880822B8082FA7E8DED7E8CE07E8CD37E8CC87E8BBC7E
> 8A
> B07E8AA27F89937F88837F88767F876A7F875F7F86537F86457F85387F842B7F84F97D95EC7D94
> DF
> 7D93D27D92C67D92BA7D91AF7E90A17E8F927E8E837E8D757E8C6A7E8B5F7E8A537F89457F8838
> 7F
> 872B7F86F87C9CEB7C9ADE7D99D07D98C57D96B97D96AD7D95A07D93917E91827E90757E8F6A7E
> 8E
> 5E7E8D537E8C457F8A387F892B7F88F77CA2E97CA0DC7C9ECF7C9DC37D9CB87D9AAC7D999F7D97
> 90
I spare you the rest of the "profile". Needless to say my client was sent a
PostScript Color Rendering Dictionary in lieu of an actual ICC profile of
the printer's press! Talk about pure BS, pure mystifaction on the part of
this printer! What is my poor client to do you think? What can I do with
this "profile" myself? Use some magic utility to generate an ICC profile
from it, if there is such utility? Nothing comes to mind. I know it's
possible to turn an ICC profile into a CRD but not the other way around. I
hope to come up with some ideas for effectively turning this CRD into an ICC
profile, even if it ends up being a truncated ICC profile -- CRDs are only
one intent (perceptual, in this case). But I am not too optimistic and it
looks like I am going to be the lucky guy breaking the good news to my
client. I know, I know. Some of you would say "tell your client to start
looking for another printer". I know.
This is almost as bad as Doug's story.
Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
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