Re: Euro Sheetfed profile? ISOcoated
Re: Euro Sheetfed profile? ISOcoated
- Subject: Re: Euro Sheetfed profile? ISOcoated
- From: Henk Gianotten <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:47:34 +0100
At 10:18 19-12-2005 -0800, you wrote:
I'm doing seps for images to be printed in Europe, Sheetfed, Coated stock,
unknown printers. Is the Euroscale Coated v2 profile in CS2 appropriate?
Dick Busher
Cosgrove Editions
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Hi,
This is a classic example to show that using printing standards all over
the world has sense.
It would be great if all international operating publishers, designers
lithographers and printers could agree on some basic sets of printing
standards.
In this case, assuming the use of regular coated stock paper class 1 or 2,
one profile for CMYK based on ISO 2846-1 inks. The international standards
for CMYK inks in the KCMY sequence.
In Europe printers are using the ISO 12647-2 standards for sheet fed offset.
There are 2 very popular profiles based on the same characterization data.
The data is called Fogra27 and available via www.color.org.
The profiles are ISOcoated available via www.eci.org or EuropeIsocoated
Fogra27 made by Adobe.
The Adobe profile is now part of CS2 and you can find the profile is the
European profile set.
The ECI profile has a long black and a high amount of GCR, the Adobe
version has a shorter black and less GCR.
If you don't know who the printer will be and if you have no idea how the
colors have to be tweaked on the press, I suggest you to use the Adobe
version. If you know how the printer
will work use the ECI version. That color gamut (separation) matches far
better the printable color gamut.
The more these two match, the better your reproduction will be.
Up in the North of Europe long blacks and high degrees of GCR are (in
general) part of their workflow. The southern printers prefer (in general)
the shorter blacks and less GCR.
As long as you don't know were this stuff will be printed, use the Adobe
version.
If such a printer would use Device Link Profiles to do a special
conversion, he could improve the printed results even if you had selected a
profile that was not made for his workflow.
But that's top-technology and just a limited number of printers is aware of
the great advantages of such a workflow optimizing technology. (Alwan,
Heidelberg and a few others offer those facilities).
By the way, the best solution anyway is a perfect combination of profiles
and CTP/Press variables. But in this case, where you still don't know how
it will be printed, stick to the Adobe stuff.
You even can make a great proof of these CMYK separations by using the same
profile.
Regards,
Henk Gianotten
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