Re: A ripping good profile ?
Re: A ripping good profile ?
- Subject: Re: A ripping good profile ?
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:51:24 -0600
on 10/27/04 4:37 PM, edmund ronald wrote:
> Still I wonder - is it necessarily meaningless to profile a RIP in
> RGB mode ? Or might this reflect a commercial choice on the part of
> Caldera ?What is the point of a CMYK profile for a RIP if one uses it
> for photo and fine art i.e. with RGB input files ? How does the RIP do
> the RGB to CMYK separation ?
There's no single reason why this couldn't have been conducted in RGB other
then the RIP doesn't understand RGB. That being the case, RGB is kind of out
of the question. I've worked with RIPs that allow, even suggest you profile
them as RGB devices and RIPs that only want CMYK. One advantage of CMYK is
you can use such goodies as GCR to build a class of profiles based upon the
type of output at hand. Having the ability to actually control black
generation is a bit more work, a bit more complex for the user but can
provide a bit more control. In a perfect world, the RIP would allow you to
use either color model (as some do).
Andrew Rodney
http://digitaldog.net/
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