Colour expectations and trust
Colour expectations and trust
- Subject: Colour expectations and trust
- From: "Walter Zacharias" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:19:52 -0500
I've been following the "Guidelines for color safety in color management unfriendly environment?" thread with great interest. We are a printer that have established proper colour management practices and honour all embedded profiles.
We too often find frustrations in the exact reverse of your situation. Files are supplied to us by creators that do not understand colour management, yet their expectations are that we should be able to match their desktop ink-jet proofs.
Your advice: "you and the printer need to talk more" - sounds good, but is it practical? This usually involves lengthy discussions with the techies on how exactly they have their system set up, what monitors they use, what is their lighting conditions, have they profiled their monitor, explain what a profile is, do they calibrate and profile their proofer, how often, etc etc. One needs to understand their workflow and get a sense of how they work. This will/can change for each project.
Your advice: "If you have built CMYK then the color management is done." I agree. The conversion from RGB to CMYK is "colour separation" and bares the brunt of the responsibility for colour. However, until we can FULLY trust the embedded profiles, receiving CMYK data will minimize the potential difference in colour expectations.
Is there an easier way?
Is there a singular or a small set of "tests" that can be run to confirm whether or not the embedded profiles are representative of the creator's colour expectations? (If so, that could become part of our preflight routine.)
Is there a test that the creator could perform that would "prove" that the files they send out with the embedded profile will match their expectations, regardless of their equipment type, setup and configuration?
Walter Zacharias
Production Analyst
Friesens Corporation
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