Re: CMYK Working Space
Re: CMYK Working Space
- Subject: Re: CMYK Working Space
- From: Roberto Michelena <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:54:43 -0500
Title: Re: CMYK Working Space
But it’s quite common for people in the Large Format Printing business to work in CMYK; partly because most of the customer’s high-res scans are already in CMYK, or because many of the LFP jobs are repurposed from offset jobs.
So assuming you’re going to work in CMYK “working space”, usually using the LFP profile is quite painful, because it’s rather unbalanced compared to what people are used to in offset world.
HP developed (and was using for their laser printers) a profile called “BigCMYK” or something like that.. Supposedly something you could use as a working space or as a source profile when you wanted saturated ‘max gamut’ prints but keeping a balanced and natural (or at least not blowing off details) look.
Don’t know what became of it, though... If it actually ships with their printers or not...
-- Roberto Michelena
EOS S.A.
Lima, Peru
On 4/20/05 5:05 AM, "neil_snape" <email@hidden> wrote:
on 20/04/05 11:45, email@hidden wrote :
Hi
I work with Large Format Inkjet printers, most of my media's have a much larger gamut size than Euroscale Coated, my RIP selects individual profiles at the point that I choose which media I need for the job, so what should be my default working space in the design program, because when I convert to Euroscale coated I am restricting my available achievable colours. Is there a mathematical CMYK space which would not restrict me, or am I missing the point with working spaces.
You should stay in rgb if you want more colour than Offset CMYK. When the LFP CMYK profile is selected it outputs to whatever gamut the device is capable then without limiting to standard Offset spaces.
When creating the inkjet profile the colours are referenced to the numbers sent to the printer , not limited to a space of Offset.
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Neil Snape photographer Paris France email@hidden http://www.neilsnape.com
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