Guidelines for color safety in color management unfriendly
Guidelines for color safety in color management unfriendly
- Subject: Guidelines for color safety in color management unfriendly
- From: MSD <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 08:51:05 -0700
I have had another misfortune due to color management. I'm left with
60,000 blueish-reddish flyers for the printer ignored the embedded
profile. Problem with too many printers is that they turn off color
management or have older versions of Photoshop and this is not the
first
time I have a bad surprise.
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Many - most - printers do not mess with managing color when
sending to plate. They will try to color manage their proofing device
to something
their pressmen can hit. (That's life).
- You did not confer with everyone involved about what color space most
closely match their workflow?
- You didn't have matchprints or other color proofs approved?
- You did not do a presscheck?
To me - it sounds like the printer is not the problem here.
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Unfortunately, I am not dealing directly with the printers but have to
pass through intermediates. I would like to find a safer way to manage
color in this context. To what space should I set the CMYK work space
in
Photoshop (7.1)? Default Photoshop 5? ...Or 4? Eurostandard coated or
Eurostandard Coated V2? (I'm in Europe).
I have also a question related to soft proofing in Photoshop. Can I set
for instance the color work space to CMYK and the soft proofing profile
to my monitor profile to see what the image looks like in CMYK without
profile? I know I can do it but the setting does not remain or then it
changes the Photoshop workspace.
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I believe that is how it just works. Your settings are converted to
your monitor profile on your system.
Without a "target" profile from your printer all you are doing is
guessing.
MSD
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